Brown County (Green Bay) and the nearby Fox River Valley make up the state's third major battleground.

CNN: Debate reaction from a hotly contested state

"Everybody has to put their best foot forward to show why we're better than everyone else, " says Mike Tyer, Fox River's marketing director.

WSJ: It Ain't Rocket Science, but Sock-Making Comes Close

The flat-roofed, rectangular glass house, with white travertine marble floors and decks, floats elegantly on steel supports along the banks of the Fox River in Plano, Ill.

FORBES: Un-private Houses

Fox River Mills Inc. of Osage, Iowa, has six research and development employees who slide prototype socks onto a knee-high mannequin leg with pressure sensors installed that measure whether the fit is too tight.

WSJ: It Ain't Rocket Science, but Sock-Making Comes Close

Meade won a regional Emmy Award for her efforts covering the 1995 collision between a school bus and a train in Fox River Grove, Illinois, that killed seven and injured more than 24 teenagers.

CNN: Anchors & Reporters

Carp are cunning, a very fox of the river, as Izaak Walton said.

ECONOMIST: Benson