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Close race for the presidency in Brazil; polls should not be given much credit

The lead of Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT, left) over President Jair Messias Bolsonaro (PL, right) in the runoff election has shrunk to less than five percentage points.

This is according to a new opinion poll (to be taken with great caution) published Thursday (13) by AtlasIntel.

In the first poll since the first round of voting on Oct. 2, AtlasIntel found that 51.1 percent of voters favor Lula and 46.5 percent lean toward Bolsonaro.

Excluding undecided and invalid votes, Lula reportedly comes in at 52.4 percent and Bolsonaro at 47.6 percent . . .

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