He started things out at Eau Claire's First Lutheran Church, the 10:00 a.m. service.

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Two other large battlegrounds are in LaCrosse and Eau Claire in western Wisconsin.

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In Eau Claire, Tom Giffey, the editorial-page editor at the Leader-Telegram, described the profusion of cut-and-paste e-mails that his page has received during the campaign.

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The swingiest part is the relatively prosperous but also relatively urban third congressional district, which encompasses La Crosse and Eau Claire in the Mississippi valley.

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NPR's Don Gonyea was with him yesterday in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where Obama talked about some of the things he hopes Americans will learn from the convention.

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Will Eau Claire voters turn out for him in November?

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Ms. Herbison's stress vanished as soon as she left her former employer earlier this year to open a senior home-care company, Visiting Angels, with her husband in Eau Claire, Wis.

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Richard Boyum, professor emeritus of counseling and psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, says most students eventually master money management, but it often takes a few mistakes along the way.

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On a fishing trip Ciske met Ty A. Bernicke, a certified financial planner with an Eau Claire, Wis. firm started by his CPA father--a firm Ciske had heard good things about.

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