Poll: Rousseff takes lead in Brazil president race
Poll: Rousseff takes lead in Brazil president race
| October 23, 2014 | Updated: October 23, 2014 3:28pm
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has pulled ahead of her rival and taken a six-point lead just days before Sunday's presidential vote, according to a poll released Thursday.
A series of recent surveys had indicated that Rousseff, whose left-leaning Workers' Party has governed Brazil the past 12 years, was nosing into the lead in recent days, but Thursday's poll was the first to give her a lead greater than the margin of error.
The survey, by the respected Datafolha agency, said 53 percent of those polled gave support to Rousseff, compared with 47 percent for center-right candidate Aecio Neves. Datafolha surveyed 9,910 people on Wednesday and Thursday, and the margin of error was plus or minus two percentage points.
Both candidates made campaign stops in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second largest city, on Thursday.
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