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MADISON, WI - NOVEMBER 6: U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) speaks after her victory over Republican candidate Tommy Thompson on election night on November 6, 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin. With tonight's win, Baldwin became Wisconsin's first openly gay Senator. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images)
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Johnson Wax building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1950. (Opened 1939.)
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Inside the Johnson Wax building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1950. (Opened 1939.)
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Inside the Johnson Wax building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1950. (Opened 1939.)
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Inside the Johnson Wax building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1950. (Opened 1939.)
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Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, 42, has been chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate. Choosing the fiscally conservative Ryan has widely been seen as a bold but smart move for Romney. Ryan, who has served in Congress since 1998, rose quickly through the ranks and now serves as chair of the House Budget Committee. There, he crafted a set of controversial budgets that helped him gain political fame. But all rising stars have to start somewhere; his began in the small town of Janesville, Wis.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stands on the North Lawn of the White House before making remarks to the news media, February 27, 2012 in Washington, DC. Walker, a Republican, will probably face a recall election this year, an effort spearheaded in part by Democrats and pro-union supporters in his state.
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WAUKESHA - AUGUST 12: Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Vice Candidate Wisconsin native Paul Ryan campaign at the Waukesha Expo Center, August, 12, 2012 Waukesha Wi. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images)
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Green Bay Packers' Greg Jennings fails to catch a pass while playing against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second half during their NFL football game in Green Bay, Wisconsin November 20, 2011. Jennings' surgery was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy
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Amardeep Kaleka, son of the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, center, comforts members of the temple, Aug. 6, 2012, in Oak Creek, Wis., where a gunman killed six people a day earlier before being shot and killed himself by police. Satwant Kaleka, 65, founder and president of the temple, died in the shooting. He was among four priests who died.
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Sikhs gather in Washington, DC's Lafayatte Park, across from the White House for a "Night of Remembrance of the Wisconsin Gurdwara Shootings" Aug. 8, 2012, with prayers, speeches, food, and signing a memorial poster. The man to the left holds a poster of Oak Creek Police Officer Lt. Brian Murphy, age 51, who was shot at least 8 times as he pursued the gunman.
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Republican Wisconsin State Legislatures look on as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker performs a ceremonial bill signing outside his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol on March 11, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. Gov. Walker signed his controversial budget repair bill into law on Friday as angry pro-union activists continued to demonstrate at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks after being announced by Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his vice presidential running mate in front of the USS Wisconsin August 11, 2012 in Norfolk, Virginia. Ryan, a seven term congressman, is Chairman of the House Budget Committee and provides a strong contrast to the Obama administration on fiscal policy.
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Mitt Romney announces Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan, left, as his vice presidential running mate during a campaign stop before the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker greets supporters at an election-night rally June 5, 2012 in Waukesha, Wisconsin
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Opponents of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill, including C.J. Terrell demonstrate outside the senate parlor at the Wisconsin State Capitol Building, Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
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US Republican vice presidential hopeful Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan (R) and presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his wife Ann attend a campaign rally at Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin, August 12, 2012
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People console each other at the command center near the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin where yesterday a gunman fired upon people at service August, 6, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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Opening the family mailbox, Wisconsin, 1946.
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Mitt Romney at the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Va., Aug. 11.
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On a train in Wisconsin in late 1959, the junior senator from Massachusetts speaks to Arthur M. Schlesinger, who would become Special Assistant to JFK in the White House, as well as one of his primary speechwriters. After Kennedy's assassination, Schlesinger wrote an enormously popular history of the Kennedy White House, A Thousand Days, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize (1965).
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks during the NRA's Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum at the NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits April 13, 2012 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Mo.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks in Milwaukee, June 4, 2012.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker strides onstage to make his acceptance speech after winning the gubernatorial recall election in Waukesha, Wis., June 5, 2012.
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United States Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin's First District talked to constituents at the Racine County Fair in Union Grove, Wisconsin. He also entered a goat milking contest. Ryan is a Republican and a conservative.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker pauses for a moment in the governor conference room at the State Capital in Madison.
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Democratic Wisconsin Assembly members cheer on the fourth day of large-scale protests at the state capitol in Madison on Feb. 18, 2011
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Wisconsin's high-speed rail is a defining campaign issue for gubernatorial candidates Republican Scott Walker, left, and Democrat Tom Barrett
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Protesters of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers demonstrate in the rotunda at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis. Feb. 17th, 2011.
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Republican congressman from Wisconsin Paul Ryan reveals the House Republicans' budget proposal, which makes $4 trillion in budget cuts over next 10 years, during a press briefing in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 5, 2011.
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Voters take to the polls as Wisconsin holds the nation's largest ever recall elections in Glendale, August 9, 2011.
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Protesters march outside the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison on March 11, 2011
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Protesters take over the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison after the Republican-controlled senate, without Democrats present, abruptly voted to eliminate almost all collective bargaining for most public workers
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Domino's Pizza Inc.'s Wisconsin six-cheese pizza
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Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan questions President Obama's budget director, Peter Orszag, on Capitol Hill on Feb. 2, 2010, during a hearing on Obama's fiscal 2011 federal budget
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Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, left, and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm address the media in Detroit
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Kara Neumann, of Weston, Wisconsin died Sunday, March 23, 2008, after her parents prayed for healing rather than getting medical help for a treatable form of diabetes.
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Tommy Thompson, Former Wisconsin governor
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Kejin Hu, a research associate, removes a colony of stem cells from an incubator to look at them under a microscope at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on March 10, 2009
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Cabinet-bound: Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson and New Jersey's Christie Whitman
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A postcard from Manitowoc, Wisconsin
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Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers exits the stands after scoring a touchdown against the Denver Broncos at Lambeau Field on October 2, 2011 in Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Frank Lloyd Wright house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1946.
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Interior of Frank Lloyd Wright house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1946.
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Interior of Frank Lloyd Wright house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1946.
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Police say a Minnesota man who broke into the Wisconsin Capitol through a first-floor window and was found unconscious on the fourth-floor rooftop has been charged with felony criminal damage.
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Aerial view of Frank Lloyd Wright house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1946.
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin participate in the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky.
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin shake hands before the vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky., on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012.
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Mrs. Leland S. McCleery watches her Michigan Wolverines lose to the Wisconsin Badgers, 1959.
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Exterior of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Madison Wisconsin, 1951.
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Flowers lie on the sign to the Sikh temple of Wisconsin where members were allowed to re-enter for the first time in Oak Creek, Wis., Thursday, Aug 9, 2012.
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Mourners gather at a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin shooting, Aug. 5, 2012, at Cathedral Square in Milwaukee
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Indian relatives of brothers Sita and Ranjit Singh who were killed in the shooting attack at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, look at family photos at the family home in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012.
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Worshipers in the Sikh community gather for a candle light vigil after prayer services at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, in Brookfield, Wis.
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Sikh temple members bring in a casket for the funeral and memorial service for the six victims of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin mass shooting in Oak Creek, Wis., Friday, Aug 10, 2012.
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The Islamic center in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
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Labor union members from Rhode Island rally in support of Wisconsin's public employees at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Lawrence University, March 30, 2012 in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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The West Allis Farmers Market in West Allis, Wisconsin, draws a bushel of customers, not to mention an ample supply of produce.
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Students celebrate Halloween in Madison, Wisconsin
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A SuperMax prison in Boscobel, Wisconsin.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a tax day tea party rally in Madison, Wisconsin, April 16, 2011.
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Water vapor streams away from a coal fire electric plant over the ice-covered St. Croix River, Wisconsin, January 9, 2010.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tours a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin on February 13, 2008
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Ralph Nader answers questions at a news conference in Wisconsin
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A colony of human embryonic stem cells is seen on a computer monitor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama addresses the crowd gathered at the Kohl Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, on Tuesday, February 12, 2008.
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U.S. Sen. John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, speaks to reporters while Sen. Russell Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, listens.
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FILE - In this June 4, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in New York. President Barack Obama and Democrats awoke Wednesday to the cruel reality of June, the political blows from the bitter loss in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial recall election and the abysmal jobs numbers could multiply before the month is out.
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Kamaldeep Kaur affixes a photo of wounded police officer Lt. Brian Murphy during a candlelight vigil in Union Square for victims of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting on Aug 8, 2012 in New York City.
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Romney waves to supporters during his primary night gathering at The Grain Exchange on April 3, 2012 in Milwaukee, Wis. Romney addressed supporters after winning primary elections in Wisconsin, Maryland and D.C.
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Judge Maryann Sumi issues a temporary order barring publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin
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U.S. Senate candidates, Democratic incumbent Senator Russ Feingold (L) and Republican challenger Ron Johnson, disagree during their debate at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin October 22, 2010.
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The Ruger SP101 Double Action revolver was on display May 19, 2006, during the 135th National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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