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[Cambria, Wisconsin; August 27. Image via Getty]

CAMBRIA, WI - AUGUST 27: Ariel Phillips, 14, and niece of Rebecca Sauer, looks on as prospective buyers inspect the cattle at the Sauer's auction August 27, 2009 in Cambria Wisconsin. Farm owners Gene Sauer and Rebecca Sauer are forced to sell off their lot of equipment and cattle to pay the bills and stay out of debt. The Sauer farm is another small farm operation that has been hit by the recession. Gene drives a semi truck and Rebecca recently lost her job after 7 years. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Expensive Camels]]> Think your employment status is bad? Live camels are getting too pricey to participate in live nativity scenes in Wisconsin, where it can cost up to $2,100 to rent three camels on Christmas Eve. Those looking to re-create a nativity scene on a budget are economizing by replacing expensive camels with donkeys and sheep, which cost a fraction of the price to rent. [UPI, Image via Getty.]

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<![CDATA[Woman Arrested For Overdue Books • Study Says 33% Of Women Like Cat-Calls]]> A woman in Grafton, Wisconsin was arrested for two overdue library books (Angels and Demons and White Oleander) and plans to never give them back after she paid a $170 fine. • A points-based credit card company, Nectar Business, has found that 1/3rd of women say they enjoy attention from construction workers. Amazingly random and unscientific! • Should new parents give away their pets when they have a baby? • A new children's book, The Princess Bubble, downplays the importance of finding a handsome prince to be happy. •

• Five interesting facts about Charlie's Angels: The show was first pitched as Alley Cats and showed the women more negatively. • A poll from the UK's Channel 4 reveals that members of the average British household spends 34 minutes a day shouting at each other. • A tall woman discusses the lonely life of the world's tallest woman after her passing. • The city of Calgary, Alberta has OK'd the wearing of hijabs and sari's in public swimming pools, but the wearers will have to stay away from the deep end. • Can you tell a Marcel from a French wist? A beehive from a pompadour? Take this quiz. • Check out Wayne Titus and his daughter Tina Titus, a father-daughter car-racing team and the first father-daughter series champions at the Oxford Plains race.

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<![CDATA[Will College Women In Wisconsin Make A Difference In Tonight's Primary?]]> Over on the New Republic's website, writer Elizabeth Cline argues that women in college are not voting for Hillary because college campuses are ivory towers where gender discrimination barely exists. Barack Obama leads by as much as 17% in polls among college Democrats, while his lead over Clinton among 18-24 year-olds not in college is a mere 3%. "College has become one corner of American life where hardworking females are consistently and fairly rewarded," Cline reasons, "and they are succeeding there, to a much greater degree than their male counterparts. It's possible, maybe even likely, to graduate college with little sense and zero experience of institutionalized gender discrimination — with almost complete freedom from the type of covert, daily setbacks that drive blacks to the polls for Obama and older women to vote for Clinton."

We spoke to Suchita Shah, the vice chair of the College Democrats at the University of Madison, Wisconsin. (Student population: 41,000, 53% of whom are female.) Ms. Shah, 20, is currently sitting out in the cold (it's eight degrees!) trying to get people to register to vote. She is also a Hillary Clinton supporter. "First of all, sexism is very much alive on college campuses. I think it's a more subtle problem than racism; it's easier to be subtly sexist than subtly racist," she told us. "[I and other women] who are Hillary supporters are supporters not just because she's a woman, but because she's the best person for the job: It's her policies, her healthcare coverage, her ideas about the economy. But as for college women and Senator Clinton vs. Senator Obama, most of the women I know who are active in politics are evenly split." (Which, perhaps answers our own question.)

But what about those not in college? According to results from the 2004 Wisconsin democratic primary, just over half of voting Democrats did not have a college degree. Of those without a college degree, 9/10 were white. These are demographics in which Clinton has been beating Obama. The 2004 statistics, which come from the Associated Press also note: "About four in 10 voters in Democratic primaries across the nation this year earn less than $50,000 annually, compared to half in Wisconsin's 2004 contest. Clinton has a slight national advantage over Obama with that group, but a huge 23 point edge among whites in that income category. And while about half that income group is white among Democrats nationally, more than eight in 10 in Wisconsin are, giving her fertile territory for votes."

No Candidate For Young Women [The New Republic]
Wisconsin Will Test Clinton's Support [AP]

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