Rousseff Lead in Brazil Poll Too Thin to Call 1st Round Win
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s lead against potential candidates in October’s presidential election is too narrow to call a first round victory, according to a poll published today.
Rousseff would win 35 percent of the vote in a Sensus poll that pitched her against Aecio Neves and Eduardo Campos, who respectively would garner 23.7 percent and 11 percent for a combined 34.7 percent. A candidate needs to have more than 50 percent support or more votes than all other candidates added together to avoid a runoff. The April 22-25 survey of 2,000 has margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percent.