Brazil president leads preelection poll by double digits

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff led all her possible contenders by double digits head of next year's presidential race, a latest survey shows. The Ibope poll, released on Monday, indicates that in one of the first-round-only race scenarios, Rousseff would carry 43 percent of the vote against 14 percent for her closest rival Senator Aecio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), followed by Pernambuco Governor Eduardo Campos of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) with 7 percent. Other scenarios also show Rousseff would win in the first round. If the PSDB's candidate would be Jose Serra, who ran against Rousseff in 2010, the president would garner 41 percent of the vote, compared with 19 percent for Serra. In any second-round scenario, Rousseff would win with a lead of at least 19 points, according to the poll. Ibope surveyed 2,002 eligible voters in 142 cities nationwide between Nov. 7 and 11 and the margin of error is two percentage points.