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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.
[Analysis] Although much has been made about the big increase in the number of Democrats who attended the Iowa Caucus on Thursday, Republicans were also surprised by the turnout. Two months ago, a Mitt Romney victory in Iowa looked to be as close to a slam dunk as anything in politics. Romney held a big [...]
Long-shot candidate Ron Paul won Jefferson County on Thursday night, gaining the support of Libertarians in a county where campaign officials expected the Texas congressman to do well. Paul collected 298 votes, compared with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who collected 263 votes, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who received 132 votes. It was [...]
Mike Huckabee, outspent by his main rival 20-1 and considered a dark horse candidate just a few months ago, won the Iowa Republican Caucus by a comfortable margin. Huckabee claimed victory during a speech before his supporters at about 9:40 p.m. Mitt Romney, who led in the polls for months, finished in second place and [...]
Presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul are among the Republicans who plan to be in Black Hawk County on Thursday night to woo voters in one of the state’s new super caucuses. Organizers say 1,500 voters from 63 precincts across Black Hawk County are expected at the caucus. It provides an unusual opportunity for [...]
More than 700 members of One: The Campaign to Make Poverty History will caucus across Iowa tonight, but its CEO says the organization founded by rock star Bono has already succeeded in Iowa. “It’s hard to measure success in a non-qualitative way,” said David Lane, Chief Executive Officer of One. “We don’t have any allusions [...]
Two years ago, and just four days apart, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, the Republican front-runners in the race to win the Iowa Caucus, began their quest to become president with a pilgrimage of sorts. Both Romney and Huckabee are seasoned politicians who look comfortable speaking before any type of audience. But during the last [...]
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee are the favorite candidates of likely Iowa caucus participants, according to a new poll which will be published in the January 1 issue of the Des Moines Register. Obama, an Illinois senator, leads Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in a tight three-way race. Obama was listed as the [...]
The Rev. Morris Hurd, chairman of the Iowa Christian Alliance said Monday that his emotions got the best of him when he told people at a political rally in Burlington last weekend that he planned on voting for Mitt Romney in the upcoming Iowa Caucuses. Hurd said he’d accept any actions that board wished to [...]
A day after calling Mitt Romney “desperate” and “dishonest”, Mike Huckabee cancelled a negative commercial aimed at his chief rival in the Republican Caucus. Then he showed the commercial to the press and even encouraged them to tape it if they wanted to. Huckabee said that he had anticipated holding the press conference, which was [...]
Mitt Romney received the endorsement of two prominent Christian conservatives over the weekend, a sign that rival Mike Huckabee hasn’t cornered the market on self-described “pro-family” voters. Romney was endorsed by the Rev. Morris Hurd, a Burlington pastor and chairman of the Iowa Christian Alliance and State Rep. Betty De Boef, a What Cheer Republican [...]
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