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Polls Show Argentine Presidential Race Neck-and-Neck

Reuters

   BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's presidential race looks set to go down to
   the wire, with the first batch of polls showing incumbent Mauricio
   Macri and center-left challenger Alberto Fernandez neck-and-neck.

   Half a dozen polls analyzed by Reuters show the election, a referendum
   on Macri's painful market reforms to trim the country's debt levels,
   likely going to a second-round runoff with no clear winner emerging
   from the first-round vote on Oct. 27.

   The polls, from a range of major domestic pollsters, were split over
   who would win a runoff. All, however, showed no candidate hitting the
   45% threshold to win outright in a first round of voting.

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