Huge upset: Dilma Rousseff trailing to Marina Silva in the Brazilian op. polls

[bryant.coleman]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/08/brazils-presidential-election-0

According to Datafolha, the opinion polls for the second round indicates that Marina Silva will beat Dilma Rousseff by 50 points to 40.  

Marina Silva is anti-Banker, pro-Environment, and pro-Poor. She was born to a family of the rubber-tappers in the Amazonia. There is considerable panic among the camps of the banker sponsored candidates (Dilma Rousseff and Aécio Neves).  

[bryant.coleman]

The latest opinion polls show Marina Silva at 47.6%, while Dilma Rousseff is getting only 32.8% of the vote (Second Round). Good news for Dilma is that Marina is steadily losing the Evangelical / Pentecostal vote after she promised to legalize gay marriage. Right now, Dilma is resorting to negative campaign against Marina, while the latter is trying to woo the farmers by softening her "Green" image.

[TrailingComet]

I guess the massive waste of resources in the WC coupled with Brazil's ignominious exit is beyond repair for Dilma
Onwards and upwards for Brazil under new leadership

[Sithara007]

I don't think that Silva will win. The agro-business lobby is against her.

[Wilikon]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/08/brazils-presidential-election-0

According to Datafolha, the opinion polls for the second round indicates that Marina Silva will beat Dilma Rousseff by 50 points to 40.  

Marina Silva is anti-Banker, pro-Environment, and pro-Poor. She was born to a family of the rubber-tappers in the Amazonia. There is considerable panic among the camps of the banker sponsored candidates (Dilma Rousseff and Aécio Neves).  

Brazil lost 7-1. Rousseff  is paying for that.

[bryant.coleman]

Brazil lost 7-1. Rousseff  is paying for that.

Although your post was sarcastic, there is some truth in that. Had Brazil won the FIFA 2014, then Dilma would have won this election effortlessly. All the hullabaloo about the corruption would have been overshadowed by the victory celebrations. But it ended terribly for Brazil in the world cup. And time has come for Dilma to pay for it.