Drought threatens to darken Obama reelection prospects

Christian Science Monitor: More than 1,000 US counties – many of them in the grain capitals of the Midwest – have applied for federal disaster relief, meaning they've had drought conditions for more than eight weeks. Moreover, 61 percent of the US is now considered drought-stricken, the highest percentage in the 12-year history of the US Drought Monitor. Drought or no drought, the US will still produce about a third of the world's corn and will see its third-largest corn crop ever. Moreover, a drought prognosis by Iowa...

URL: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0713/Drought-threatens-to-darken-Obama-reelection-prospects
Enclosure: http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/0713-iowa-corn-drought.jpg/13138200-1-eng-US/0713-Iowa-corn-drought.jpg_full_380.jpg