Will anyone in 2016 have repealing the ethanol mandate as part of the platform?

Certainly not until after the Iowa primary.

No, because for some stupid reason we kick off every Presidential primary season with candidates prostituting themselves out to corn farmers.

Nope. Wayyy too much welfare $$$ in it now.

I watched a report on the crap called ethanol, THIRTY US states are now in the crap/ethanol markets.

The US consumer will continue to have to suffer will the mega-industrial growers(the family farmer has loooong been gone) continue to reap $$$s in government subsidies.

Iowa's already pretty blue anyway.

It went for Obama in 08 and 12.

Many eventual nominees have lost Iowa. It seems like at least one candidate one day would have the balls to just say 'frick it' and go hard on this ridiculous issue from the get go and give the finger to this inane corn lobby. What you might lose from Iowa, you'd seemingly gain many times over elsewhere.

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Rand knows this and he's pushing hard to get Iowa out of the way early on and in his corner before he can come out in favor of repealing the ethanol mandate.

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Man of principle right there

The problems with ending ethanol mandates from a political standpoint are massive:
1. It's not an issue that resonates with voters. The vast majority of voters simply have no idea that they are being screwed over by these policies.
2. The corn lobby is extremely powerful in the states that ending such a policy would negatively affect. Many of those states are also important swing states (ohio, indiana, illinois, iowa, kansas, nebraska, virginia). Iowa is also one of the first primary states. Meaning a poor showing there likely all but eliminates a potential candidate from nomination.