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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin suggested her planned-at-the-last-minute trip to Omaha, Neb., over the weekend revealed nothing about the state of the McCain campaign. Instead of being in, say, the once battleground state of Michigan, from which McCain pulled his campaign last week, Palin was in Omaha fighting for the one electoral vote (the state determines some electoral votes by congressional district).
She did reportedly pick off some western Iowans in the Omaha appearance, but with less than a month remaining, what does it say about team McCain that they are playing on what in recent history has been considered solid home turf for Republicans? Here is The Omaha World Herald:
Palin’s visit to Nebraska comes as national polls show that McCain is struggling in the presidential race. It also comes as Obama makes a historic bid to win one of Nebraska’s electoral votes – the first time a Democrat has competed in this Republican stronghold in four decades.
Democrats and others have said Palin’s visit to Nebraska indicates that McCain can’t even count on traditional red states like Nebraska this year.
Palin denied that, saying she asked to come to the Midwest.
“The pundits were saying, ‘Check out where she’s going. She’s going to Nebraska.’ The pundits were saying, ‘The only reason she would be going there is because they’re scared. They have to shore up votes,’ ” Palin said.
“I so wanted to reach into that TV and say ‘no.’ I’m going to Nebraska because I want to go to Nebraska,” Palin said.
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