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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.
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, cruised to re-election Tuesday, holding onto a decisive margin throughout the night. King had 60 percent of the vote with 402 of 417 precincts reporting, a wide margin that will send him back to Washington for a fourth term and keep him very much politically alive for a potential run [...]
CARROLL — One veteran Democratic pollwatcher here tells us this morning that she’s been to all four wards in the city of Carroll — the main voting sites in what is a bellwether county — and seen no Republican pollwatchers. The long-time activist is stunned at the absence.
CARROLL — With rich Catholic and Democratic traditions, but growing social conservative and evangelical demographics, Carroll County, the economic hub of west-central Iowa, can be considered something of a bellwether for the Hawkeye State in today’s election. As of last Friday, Carroll County had 14,969 registered voters: 5,310 Democrats, 3,155 Republicans, 6,499 no party voters, [...]
In just one week, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who represents a heavily rural swath of the nation with no major media market, or even an outlet that can claim to cover the full Fifth District, had his words excoriated by three of the biggest national liberal names: Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann and Alan Colmes. Not bad [...]
CARROLL — After speaking at a get-out-the-vote rally in Carroll Saturday, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, stood outside the Moose Lodge talking on his cell phone to a senate candidate thousands of miles away in, well, moose country. Harkin told Iowa Independent that he was one of a few senators acting as a kind of a political “godfather” for Mark Begich, [...]
As Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, addressed a crowd estimated at 10,000 at Hy-Vee Hall a week ago, Keeley Sinnard was standing behind the Alaska governor — seeing the event in the same way Palin did.
Fifth District Democratic congressional candidate Rob Hubler may be well behind U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, in fundraising, but the challenger expects big dividends from the strategic use of advertising in small and weekly newspapers, most notably with the insertion in the last few weeks of an 8-page “Congressional Voters Guide” in 75 papers in [...]
“John McCain, I won’t say he’s toast, but he’s rapidly approaching English muffin territory,” said U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, in remarks at the Moose Lodge in downtown Carroll before an audience of about 30 party activists.
DES MOINES — Gov. Chet Culver told the Iowa Independent that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s coattails are looking long enough to extend even into conservative western Iowa. “I think this is the type of year where that is possible,” Culver said in an interview at Obama’s Friday rally. “It could be like 1964. We [...]
Veteran Iowa journalist Chuck Offenburger, formerly with The Des Moines Register and now managing his own Web site, Offenburger.com, has long used Sam’s Barber Shop in Aububon as a barometer for politics and other Iowa issues. With the election only days away, Offenburger has found good news for the Democrats at Sam’s.
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