They voted on Sunday in Brazil and the top two candidates are heading for a runoff, according to this report from The New York Times: Brazil's presidential election is going to a runoff between President Dilma Rousseff and challenger Aecio Neves, the country's electoral authority confirmed on Sunday. An official running tally with 93.54 percent of ballots counted showed that 41.08 percent of valid votes had gone to Rousseff, 34.20 percent to Neves and 21.14 percent to third-place candidate Marina Silva. The ruling left-of-center party has a sluggish economy and scandal in nation's oil industry to overcome.  Like the Democrats in the US, they know how to play the scare card and have a good ground game to get voters to the polls. Brazil's chief problem is slow growth, as IBD told us during the World Cup: "The World Bank is predicting 1.5% GDP growth in Brazil this year. Since 2010 growth has averaged less than 2%...(Read Full Post)