{{Brazil President Dilma Rousseff would win a second-round runoff against either opponent and has 38 percent of voter support ahead of her October re-election bid, a new poll by the IBOPE polling institute showed on Tuesday.}}<\/p>\n
Her main challenger, Aecio Neves, has the backing of 22% of potential voters while Eduardo Campos has 8%, according to the survey broadcast on TV Globo.<\/p>\n
The changes in voter intention for all candidates are within the poll’s margin of error from June, when Rousseff had 39% of support, Neves had 21% and Campos 10 percent, suggesting Rousseff’s support is not eroding as other recent polls have suggested.<\/p>\n
The approval rating of her government remained at 31%, unchanged from a month ago when Brazil was starting to host the month-long soccer World Cup. Her personal approval rating was also unchanged at 44%.<\/p>\n
The tournament was considered a surprising logistical success but moral in the soccer-loving nation was hurt by the national team’s stunning 7-1 loss to Germany.<\/p>\n
In a second-round runoff vote, Rousseff would defeat Neves of the centrist PSDB party with 41% of the vote compared with his 33 percent, IBOPE found. <\/p>\n
She would also win with 41% against Campos, a former state governor and leader of the Brazilian Socialist Party, who would get 29%.<\/p>\n
Other polls released by Datafolha and the Sensus polling institute on Friday and Saturday showed the election headed to a runoff, with Rousseff and Neves tied in a second round.<\/p>\n
Until recently Rousseff appeared to be cruising toward re-election, but she now finds herself in an unpredictable race almost certain to go to a runoff vote as an already sluggish economy takes a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n
Her popularity has been declining this year due to concerns about high inflation as well as economic growth. <\/p>\n
Discontent has been on the rise since protesters took to the streets a year ago, and 70% of those interviewed in July desired change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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