He has won a diverse following of allies that helped propel him to within a breath of winning the city comptroller's race outright on Sept. 15.
Having failed to win outright on October 3rd, Ms Rousseff, the former chief of staff and chosen candidate of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the hugely popular outgoing president, faces a run-off against Mr Serra on October 31st.
The Pollster model gives Perdue about a two-thirds chance of winning outright on Nov. 4 or winning the runoff.
Emanuel won election outright on Feb. 22, 2011, with 55percentt of the vote, well beyond the 50-percent-plus-one-vote threshold needed to avoid an April runoff with the second-place finisher, Gery Chico.
The run-off vote will be between Dilma Rousseff of the governing Workers Party, who failed to get the 50% of votes need to win outright on 3 October, and Jose Serra of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB).
The two top priorities for the session are stop-gap financing to keep the government running, and a legislative compromise to avert the outright expiration on Dec. 31 of the income tax cuts enacted during the administration of President George W. Bush.
The Chicago mayor's race went to an unprecedented run-off when well-funded Emanuel, mayor since 2011, failed to clinch the 50percentt of the vote he needed for an outright win on Feb. 24.
The opposition is trying to force Mr. Milosevic to concede an outright, first-round electoral victory to Mr. Kostunica, who says that only widespread government vote fraud denied him the presidency outright in elections on Sept. 24.
His challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, who says he won the presidency outright in elections on Sept. 24, made a triumphant visit to several thousand striking mine workers, promising them that Mr. Milosevic will not steal their victory from them.
His challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, who says he won the presidency outright in elections on Sept. 24, reiterated to striking miners that he would not participate in a second round.
Hyde-Smith, appointed earlier this year to take over retiring Sen. Thad Cochran's seat, failed to capture the 50percentt of votes she needed to win outright on Election Day earlier this month, thanks to a third-party challenge from former Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
