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BOONE, Iowa - First they rode hogs. Then, they ate them. Freshman Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican, drew seven presidential candidates and about 1,000 activists to her inaugural "Roast and Ride," the latest entrant in Iowa's long history of food-centric retail political events. Harleys are known "hogs," of course, and Ernst was elected last year with a memorable TV ad in which she boasted of learning to castrate hogs growing up on a farm. She vowed to cut Washington pork and "make them squeal."

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