Tuesday is Election Day, but a majority of students won’t vote because they “just don’t know enough to choose.”

Be ignorant no more: We hereby present the Daily’s picks for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.

In the race for Iowa’s Third District House seat, Davis City farmer Leonard Boswell is running for re-election against Marshalltown attorney Larry McKibben.

Boswell, a Democrat, has served one term in the House after 12 years in the Iowa Legislature. McKibben, a Republican, is finishing his first term in the state Senate, his only experience in elected office.

There are plenty of reasons to go with Boswell.

He has brought $40 million in infrastructure improvements to the district and holds key seats on the Agriculture and Transportation committees. He was in the forefront of the drive to renew the ethanol subsidy, a must for Iowa’s farmers.

In addition, Boswell stubbornly pressed for a provision against child labor to be included in fast-track legislation that was debated this fall. The bill can pass next session — to the benefit of Iowans —with Boswell’s help and a little bipartisanship.

Boswell, with his record and experience, gets our nod over McKibben.

The Senate race features a former state representative, Democrat David Osterberg, challenging three-term incumbent Charles Grassley, a Republican.

Osterberg has run a non-traditional campaign, canoeing several of the state’s rivers to highlight his environment-friendly ideas. And it must be said that he has some good ideas.

But Grassley, with 39 years combined service in Congress and the Legislature, can be the most effective advocate for Iowans.

Counting all Republicans, he ranks third on the Finance Committee, second on the Budget Committee and third on the Judiciary Committee — in Grassley’s words, the most powerful position for an Iowa GOP senator since 1924.

He also started “Face It Together,” a community-based program to combat drugs in rural Iowa, and Grassley says he wants to expand it nationally during his next term.

Grassley has farmed outside New Hartford for almost 40 years, making him the better choice for a state that relies so heavily on agriculture.

There you have it — Boswell and Grassley. Check this space tomorrow for our friendly advice on the gubernatorial race.

Then, vote. It’s your responsibility.