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Sun, 2011-10-23 18:22
If she does win, she’ll be the first woman to be reelected president in Latin America. But it will also be a bittersweet victory for Fernandez. It is her first in a lifetime of politics without her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, who died of a heart attack last Oct. 27.
Fernandez can win with as little as 40 percent of the vote if none of her rivals comes within 10 percentage points of her, but the latest polls suggested she could capture between 52 percent and 57 percent of votes.
Also at stake is control of congress.
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