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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.
The latest Quad-City Times-Lee Enterprises poll, released Sunday, has Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama extending his lead in Iowa over Republican John McCain.
The poll found Obama leads McCain 54 percent to 39 percent, a one point gain for Obama from the Lee Enterprise poll in September. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
“I think Obama’s going to carry Iowa comfortably,” said pollster Del Ali, whose firm Research 2000 conducted the survey.
One of the surpries of the poll was that only 29 percent of voters polled said they would be less likely to vote for McCain because of his outspoken opposition to ethanol subsidies, a position many observers felt was the Republican’s achillies heal in Iowa. Only 38 percent of voters ranked the candidates’ positions on ethanol as important or very important in making their decision.
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