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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 Democratic Presidential Candidate Debate at Drake University this morning started with a bang as candidates were aggressively questioned by debate moderator George Stephanopoulous of ABC News, but overall it was largely a sedate affair that saw the field deepening their commitment to lines of attack they’d shallowly sketched during the Yearly Kos and AFL-CIO [...]
In answering the religion question, Kucinich quips that he’s spent the past 45 minutes “praying that [George] would call on me.” This seals it for me: Dennis Kucinich is the most improved candidate of contest 2008. He’s finally got a decent haircut, he smiles all the time, he’s frequently funny, and he’s figured out a [...]
Clinton, Joe Biden, and Obama all agree to a large extent on the difficulty of getting out of Iraq. This is interesting, in that during the last debate, the AFL-CIO presidential forum in Chicago, a dynamic emerged of Edwards and Obama allying as the anti-establish outsiders against what Edwards adviser Joe Trippi dubbed “the Senate [...]
Having followed Edwards for the past few days, it’s become clear that Edwards sees running against lobbyists as one of the most important planks of his platform. It has become a central part of his stump speech, and now his main line of attack against Clinton in this debate. Clinton, for her part, says that [...]
Pressed repeatedly by Stephanopoulous, John Edwards says he agrees with Clinton’s stance of not talking about whether an American leader should make its nuclear policies plain. “I don’t want to talk about hypothetical use of nuclear weapons,” he said.
George Stephanopoulous got things off to a rolicking start by asking the rest of the field about Sen. Barack Obama’s qualifications and experience. This looks like it’s going to be a very pointed debate. Bill Richardson nicely parried by saying that Obama stood for change and Hillary Clinton for experience, but “with me you get [...]
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson opened up about his personal dislike of the present immigration debate in front of an audience of Iowa Hispanics yesterday. “I don’t like the immigration debate,” Richardson told a meeting of the Heritage of Latino Americans (HOLA) Wells Fargo affinity group at the Wells Fargo campus in West Des Moines, [...]
The American Spectator‘s blog reports that the Federal Election Commission is investigating the role of a home schooling group in former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s Ames Straw Poll finish, and may expand the investigation to include FairTax.org: While the Huckabee campaign bought a number of tickets to the straw poll for its supporters, it didn’t [...]
Polk County G.O.P. Chair and blogger Ted Sporer has a sharp run-down on the winners and losers of Saturday’s straw poll in Ames over on his site. Most intriguing is his report of growing hostility to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the part of potential caucus-goers: By his absence, Rudy Giuliani was the [...]
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