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Daily Iowan Voter Guide 2012: Daily Iowan Reader, Nov. 5
Also inside: Farm bill depends on election, Iowa City trees get wrapped, Hoosier D-Line dominates Iowa O-Line.
Fate of farm bill depends on results of Tuesday’s election
Officials in agricultural states such as Iowa are calling for the passage of the farm bill, and the outcome of Tuesday’s election could decide its fate.
When its last session adjourned, Congress had not approved the 2012 farm bill, and since then, representatives on both sides of the aisle in agricultural states have been calling for it to pass before the end of the year.
The farm bill is designed to secure a food supply for the country by providing subsidies for crop farmers. The bill also contains other programs such as food stamps and school-lunch programs.
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Both Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, and challenger John Archer —running for Congress in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District — have made statements about the importance of the bill. Archer blames Congress’s inaction on political games and a broken system.
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Iowa City trees wrapped in hand-knit Tree Huggers
Tree Huggers is a public art project aimed at bringing the community color this season.
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Obama wins landslide victory in Hamburg's Coffee Bean Caucus
This is the third presidential election for which the Hamburg Inn No. 2 has held the Coffee Bean Caucus.
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Former UI student who assaulted cop will remain a felon
Branden Plummer was denied his request to defer his sentence meaning he will remain a convicted felon.
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Hoosier defensive tackles dominate Iowa line
Iowa redshirt freshmen Jordan Walsh and Austin Blythe were pitted against bigger, more experienced, and more talented Indiana defensive linemen.
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Iowa men’s basketball forces 31 turnovers in exhibition romp
The Iowa men’s basketball team forced 31 turnovers in a resounding 100-54 victory over Division-II Quincy (Ill.) in an exhibition matchup at Carver-Hawkeye Arena Sunday.
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Column: The politics of polling
With such reliance on polling data to inform the candidates’ own views, it is quite surprising how far some on the right have gone to discredit polling data in general as biased and untrustworthy.
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