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Latest poll shows Dilma winning the run off with seven point margin
In first-round voting that takes place on Sunday, Rousseff has 40% voter support and Silva 24%. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has extended her lead over environmentalist Marina Silva ahead of Sunday's Oct. 5 presidential election and would win a likely second-round runoff, a new poll showed on Thursday.
Rousseff has 43% of voter support against 36% for Silva, according to the survey by the Ibope polling firm, widening her advantage to seven percentage points from four since the previous poll released on Tuesday.
In first-round voting that takes place on Sunday, Rousseff has 40% voter support and Silva 24%. That compares with 39% for Rousseff and 25% for Silva in the previous Ibope poll. Support for centrist candidate Aecio Neves was unchanged at 19%.
If no candidate wins an outright majority in the first round, the election will be decided in a runoff between the two leading candidates on Oct. 26.
The new Ibope poll surveyed 3,010 respondents nationwide between Sept. 27 and Oct. 2. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points. The results were posted online by the Estado de S.Paulo newspaper.
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Read all commentsI smell sulphur and the hand of the Devil in this!
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 10:57 am 0Ah well, Devil 1, God 0
Ha, ha, ha, etc.
We watched the debate on GLOBO last night.
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 04:49 pm 0I am skeptical of the accuracy and independence of the so called “poll ” results. No one is talking about anyone but Marina Silva.
Marina Silva pointed out that of all the candidates presented, only she and Dilma had an actual plan to present for governing the country.
A great escape plan , if ever their was one,
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 05:55 pm 0who digs in first..lol
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