Rousseff Triples Lead Over Serra in Brazilian Runoff
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Brazilian presidential frontrunner Dilma Rousseff tripled her lead over opposition rival Jose Serra four days ahead of the country’s runoff, a Sensus poll showed.
Support for Rousseff, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s former Cabinet chief, rose to 51.9 percent from 46.8 percent in the previous Sensus poll taken Oct. 18-19. Support for Serra, a former Sao Paulo governor, declined to 36.7 percent from 41.8 percent. Serra, 68, trails Rousseff by 15.2 percentage points, up from five points in the previous poll.