The economy and how the state can help businesses retain and create jobs look to be a major factors in the 2012 Missouri governor’s race.
First-term incumbent Gov. Jay Nixon is looking to voters to return him to office while his Republican challenger, St. Louis businessman Dave Spence, is asking those same voters to consider a new approach to how the state does business.
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