Lefty Dilma Rousseff way out in front in Brazil [View All]

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Latest poll out today has her with 43 percent and opponent José Serra with 32 percent. Rousseff is of Lula's Workers Party.



Serra is of the more centrist Brazilian Social Democracy Party. He was forced into a 14-year exile (1964-1978) from the Brazilian military dictatorship. He is former mayor of Sao Paulo and former governor of Sao Paulo state.

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Interesting fact about Brazilian elections:

Tuesday night was the beginning of FREE electoral propaganda on Brazil's nationwide radio and television networks and stations. The ads can be transmitted only TWICE a day, during prime audience hours. This will last until Sept. 30, three days before the elections.

(Leave it to Brazil to come up with this novel idea. Compare that to the obscene millions upon millions spent on TV/radio ads in the United States in the run-up to elections.)