Brazil poll shows Rousseff with lead over Serra

Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:47pm EDT

(Corrects number of people interviewed in poll, paragraph 2)

BRASILIA Aug 13 (Reuters) - Brazil's ruling party presidential candidate, Dilma Rousseff, has 41 percent voter support against 33 percent for the main opposition candidate, Jose Serra, a poll showed on Friday.

The Datafolha survey, which was broadcast by TV Globo, polled 10,856 people from Aug. 9-12 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. The election is in October.

(Reporting by Luciana Lopez; Writing by Raymond Colitt; Editing by Will Dunham)

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