Poll: Brazil's leader gains ground in tight race
Poll: Brazil's leader gains ground in tight race
| October 20, 2014 | Updated: October 20, 2014 8:14pm
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A poll released Monday night shows Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff gaining ground over her rival in a tight re-election race, though the contest remains in a technical tie.
The Datafolha polling group's latest survey has Rousseff with 52 percent of voters' support, compared to 48 percent for challenger, Aecio Neves. With the margin of error at 2 percentage points, that keeps the pair statistically tied.
But the poll was the first to show Rousseff numerically in front of Neves — meaning she's trended upward while Neves has slipped. The previous poll by Datafolha released late last week had the race at 51-to-49 in Neves' favor.
The Monday poll also captured a rising rejection rate for Neves: 40 percent of those surveyed said they would never vote for Neves, compared to a rejection rate of 34 percent earlier this month. Rousseff's rejection rate stood at 39 percent in the most recent poll — down from 43 percent earlier this month.
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