Brazil Vote Too Close to Call as Runoff Looms, Poll Shows
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is statistically tied with opposition candidate Aecio Neves less than two weeks before the runoff election, according to a Vox Populi poll published yesterday.
Rousseff garnered 45 percent of support for the Oct. 26 vote, compared to 44 percent for Neves, according to the Oct. 11-12 poll of 2,000 people that has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points. A Sensus poll published Oct. 11 showed Neves with 52.4 percent support and Rousseff with 36.7 percent. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.