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摘要

One of the hardest results to forecast, even in this year's nail-biting election, is who will be Missouri's governor after the voting on November 2nd. It is a battle between the Democrats' Claire McCaskill, at present Missouri's state auditor, and the Republicans' Matt Blunt, currently its secretary of state. Nobody is willing to bet much on who will be the winner. Both Ms McCaskill and Mr Blunt come from political families. Ms McCaskill, despite her claim to be a farm girl who worked her way through college and law school as a waitress, spent most of her childhood in the college town of Columbia, where her mother was on the city council and her father was a state insurance commissioner. She moved to Kansas City in western Missouri, and eventually became a prosecution lawyer in Jackson County.