"This may change the votes of well-educated, well-informed people," said Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and it has the potential to push the voting to a second round.
When you've got Roger Clemens stepping up to give you a vote of confidence, well, you know things have sunk to historically low levels.
In 2013 Le Monde's association of journalists (the Société des Rédacteurs du Monde), which has the power to confirm nominees for the directorship, approved her selection by a vote of 80 percent, well above the required 60 percent.
We know that the relief appearances of Sutter (who received 60percentt of the vote last year, well short of the required 75percentt) and Gossage (41percentt) were more trying compared with those of the Eckersleyesque closers of today, but to what degree?
Finland's Eurosceptic True Finns Party won two seats and nearly 13% of the vote, falling well short of forecasts.
Reed was the leading vote-getter with 36.6% of the vote, finishing well ahead of community leaders Horace Mann Bond and Eric V. Thomas, the second and third place finishers, respectively.
In June 2010, an L.A. Unified parcel tax proposal hampered by an anemic campaign received only 53% of the vote, falling well short of the required two-thirds majority.
It's certainly interesting to see that niche flash sales sites like Exclusively.In are growing and finding a loyal userbase, and a vote of confidence from well-known investors.
Most women, however, did not vote for one of their own: Mr Sarkozy secured 52% of the female vote, as well as of the over-60s and the 25-44s.
In 2005 he won 48% of the vote, well ahead of his rivals, while the SNP came third with 15%.
The exit polls showed that Spanish-born Hidalgo, 54, was estimated to have won, with 55% of the vote, well ahead of Kosciusko-Morizet.
