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Can Cruz kill King Corn?

By Timothy P. Carney

Published January 5, 2016 9:29pm ET

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Can Cruz kill King Corn? — If Ted Cruz wins Iowa, especially if he wins big, it will confirm that the subsidies and mandates for ethanol are very important only to a sliver of the population. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) | Paul Sancya

The ethanol lobby is getting scared.

The ethanol mandate has no clearer enemy among top-tier presidential candidates than Ted Cruz. And in Iowa, where ethanol has for decades held a mystical sway over politicians of all stripes, the clear front-runner in next month’s caucuses is Ted Cruz.

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