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Argentina Pollsters Emerge After Primary Fail, Forecast Huge Win for
Fernandez

Reuters

   BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's pollsters, still smarting after failing to
   predict a landslide defeat for President Mauricio Macri in an August
   primary, are sheepishly re-emerging with an updated election forecast:
   a huge win for opposition leader Alberto Fernandez.

   Fernandez, a moderate Peronist who until this year was little known
   outside Argentina, won by a far larger-than-expected 16 points in
   August, dashing Macri's hopes of being re-elected at the end of the
   year.

   The shock result rattled Argentina's debt and currency markets, driving
   the peso and bonds to record lows as investors worried about the
   country's shift back to populist-style policies.

   Fernandez is running on a ticket with populist ex-leader Cristina
   Fernandez de Kirchner, a militant populist who commands an ardent
   support base but who also alienated investors and business during her
   presidency from 2007 to 2015.

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