Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva congratulates Brazil's President and Workers' Party (PT) presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff (L) during news conference after disclosure of the election results, in Brasilia October 26, 2014. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The turning point in President Dilma Rousseff's re-election campaign came on the evening of Sept. 1, after a disastrous presidential debate at which she confessed to the audience that she was "nervous" and stumbled over several words.
A poll released that day showed she would lose by 10 percentage points in a runoff against environmentalist Marina Silva, with the election's first round barely a month away.
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