You wouldn't expect Davie County, N.C. to be the center of a high stakes political battle.

And you wouldn't think that freshman Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), a small business owner who still lives on the farm on which he was raised, would be the target of intense lobbying and blunt advertising campaigns by industry behemoths.

But the industry groups on the two sides of the Durbin Amendment on debit card interchange fees are boosting their ground games, taking the fight to individual congressional districts.

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