Clustering Sample Set C

DATA: 2006/10/02 (12h) ............... 127 clusters
CLUSTER 0
   0 ---> [sao paulo - brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva on sunday missed re-election in the first round of voting, after squandering a very comfortable lead in vote intention.]
   1 ---> [voting got under way on sunday morning in brazil, where president luiz inacio lula da silva was confident of winning a second term.]

CLUSTER 1
   0 ---> [m&c's relaunched forums for extended discussion...its free!]
   1 ---> [m&c's relaunched forums for extended discussion...its free!]

CLUSTER 2
   0 ---> [sao paulo, brazil -- brazil's presidential election could be headed for a runoff as a leading exit poll yesterday suggested that disgust over corrupt politics has turned many voters against president luiz inacio lula da silva in the final days of campaigning.]
   1 ---> [brasilia, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - brazil's president luiz inacio lula da silva must contest a run-off after a string of corruption scandals turned many voters against the former factory worker in sunday's presidential election.]
   2 ---> [sao paulo, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - an exit poll by survey firm ibope on sunday showed brazil's president luiz inacio lula da silva leading his main rival but suggested the presidential election could go to a runoff.]

CLUSTER 3
   0 ---> [the poll further indicated a dramatic shift in the past few days as opposition candidates assailed mr lula, the champion of brazil's poor, over the sleaze and corruption scandals surrounding his workers' party.]
   1 ---> [the past few days have seen a dramatic turn-around as opposition candidates flayed lula, the champion of brazil's poor, over corruption scandals surrounding his workers' party.]

CLUSTER 4
   0 ---> [polls in the months leading up to the election had shown mr lula cruising to an easy outright victory in the first round.]
   1 ---> [all polls leading up to the election showed lula would be re-elected as early as the first round.]

CLUSTER 5
   0 ---> [mr alckmin and the other opposition candidates together had 50 per cent, according to the poll broadcast by tv globo.]
   1 ---> [alckmin and the rest of the opposition candidates had 50 percent combined.]

CLUSTER 6
   0 ---> [lula would need an absolute majority of votes to win in the first round and avoid a two-man runoff on oct.]
   1 ---> [    lula has to win more than 50 percent of the votes to win outright on sunday and avoid going into a runoff on oct.]

CLUSTER 7
   0 ---> [more than 125 million brazilians voted.]
   1 ---> [more than 125 million brazilians are voting in what is is?]

CLUSTER 8
   0 ---> [but revelations that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against mr alckmin gave new ammunition to a lacklustre opposition.]
   1 ---> [but revelations two weeks ago that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against alckmin gave his opponents new political ammunition.]
   2 ---> [but revelations that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against his main challenger geraldo alckmin gave a lackluster opposition new ammunition.]

CLUSTER 9
   0 ---> [it also raised the memory of a string of bribery and vote-buying scandals in the past two years that have cost mr lula's chief of staff, his finance minister and other aides their jobs.]
   1 ---> [it all reignited memories of bribery and vote-buying scandals in the past two years which have cost lula's chief of staff, his finance minister and other aides their jobs.]

CLUSTER 10
   0 ---> [preliminary results showed mr lula had won 48 per cent of the vote with 50 per cent of the votes tallied.]
   1 ---> [preliminary results on sunday night show da silva just short of the 50 per cent of votes needed to win the election outright.]

CLUSTER 11
   0 ---> [his closest challenger, geraldo alckmin, a conservative former governor of the country's biggest state, são paulo, won 41.3 percent of the vote.]
   1 ---> [his arch rival, former sao paulo state governor geraldo alckmin, of social democratic party ( psdb ) received 25 percent of the votes.]
   2 ---> [alckmin, 53, a former governor of sao paulo state, had 38 percent of the votes, according to the exit polls, released on globo television.]

CLUSTER 12
   0 ---> [brazil's top election official, marco aurélio mello, confirmed that there would be a second round of voting.]
   1 ---> [brazil's top election official, marco aurelio mello, confirmed around midnight that there'd be a second round of voting.]

CLUSTER 13
   0 ---> [arrest warrants have been issued against six party members.]
   1 ---> [arrest warrants have been issued for six members of lula's workers' party who are accused of paying about $800,000 for information that allegedly proved corruption on alckmin's part.]

CLUSTER 14
   0 ---> [surveys conducted before the election showed lula riding broad support from poor brazilians to re-election.]
   1 ---> [surveys conducted before the election showed lula, as the president is widely known, riding broad support from poor brazilians to re-election.]

CLUSTER 15
   0 ---> [lula cut a confident figure as he voted at a state school in sao bernardo do campo, the industrial suburb of sao paulo where he began his political life.]
   1 ---> [lula, 60, voted in the industrial suburb of sao bernardo de campo, where he first came to public attention in the early eighties as a union leader.]

CLUSTER 16
   0 ---> [six members of the president's workers' party, including an old friend who ran his personal security detail, face arrest warrants for their alleged roles in an effort to buy damaging information about lula's political opponents.]
   1 ---> [six members of mr lula's party, including an old friend who ran his personal security detail, face arrest warrants for their alleged roles in efforts to buy the damaging information; mr lula fired his campaign manager days before the election.]
   2 ---> [and just weeks before the election it emerged that six pt members, including a close friend of lula's, could face arrest for allegedly trying to buy damaging information about his political opponents.]

CLUSTER 17
   0 ---> [the president sacked his campaign manager days before the election.]
   1 ---> [accusations of political dirty tricks and illegal campaign spending forced him to fire his campaign manager days before the election.]

CLUSTER 18
   0 ---> [lula had around 49% of the vote, against 37% for his closest rival, geraldo alckmin.]
   1 ---> [his main rival is geraldo alckmin, the centre-left, business-friendly former governor of sao paulo state.]
   2 ---> [his closest rival, social democratic party candidate geraldo alckmin, received 25 percent of the votes.]

CLUSTER 19
   0 ---> [to avoid a second round run off, lula needs more than half of the vote.]
   1 ---> [lula needs more than 50 percent of the votes to win the election outright.]

CLUSTER 20
   0 ---> [" but i'll vote for him.]
   1 ---> [" but i will tell you who i didn't vote for.]

CLUSTER 21
   0 ---> [the country's electoral court said mr lula just failed to garner the 50 per cent of votes needed to be re-elected in the first round.]
   1 ---> [brazil's electoral court said that lula just failed to garner the 50 percent of votes needed to be re-elected in the first round and he would face a run-off against geraldo alckmin of the centrist brazilian social democracy party.]

CLUSTER 22
   0 ---> [the second round could unite the opposition against mr lula and give them more time to dig up further evidence of campaign wrongdoing by the workers' party.]
   1 ---> [that could unite the opposition against him and give them more time to dig up further evidence of campaign wrongdoing by his ruling workers' party.]
   2 ---> [the opposition could unite against lula and it has gained more time to dig up further evidence of wrongdoing by lula's workers' party before the october 29 second round.]

CLUSTER 23
   0 ---> [the tight contest marked a dramatic shift in the last few days.]
   1 ---> [the tight contest marked a dramatic shift in the last few days as opposition candidates assailed lula, a former union leader from a humble background, over the sleaze and corruption scandals surrounding his workers' party.]

CLUSTER 24
   0 ---> [major newspapers ran front-page photos over the weekend showing piles of money allegedly meant to buy information showing corrupt dealings by an opponent.]
   1 ---> [major newspapers ran front-page photos over the weekend showing piles of money allegedly meant to buy information showing claims linking serra to graft.]
   2 ---> [major newspapers ran front-page photos over the weekend showing stacks of banknotes seized in the worker party sting.]
   3 ---> [major newspapers ran front-page photos over the weekend showing piles of money allegedly meant to buy information showing corrupt dealings by jose serra, of alckmin's party.]

CLUSTER 25
   0 ---> [lula's party claimed that mr alckmin's supporters were involved, and filed a complaint yesterday with a judge demanding that mr alckmin's candidacy be declared invalid because of the leak.]
   1 ---> [silva's party claimed that alckmin's supporters were involved in leaking the photos to the media, and filed a complaint sunday with a judge demanding that alckmin's candidacy be declared invalid.]
   2 ---> [silva's party claimed that alckmin's supporters were behind the leak and asked a judge sunday to invalidate alckmin's candidacy.]

CLUSTER 26
   0 ---> [mr alckmin's campaign has denied involvement.]
   1 ---> [lula denied any involvement.]

CLUSTER 27
   0 ---> [alckmin, of the centrist social democracy party, voted yesterday in sao paulo's upscale neighbourhood of morumbi.]
   1 ---> [alckmin, of the social democracy party, voted sunday in sao paulo's upscale neighborhood of morumbi.]
   2 ---> [by contrast, mr alckmin, 53, voted in sao paulo's wealthy morumbi district.]

CLUSTER 28
   0 ---> [" ethics will defeat corruption," he said.]
   1 ---> [he said he was sure there would be a runoff election and that" ethics will defeat corruption."]
   2 ---> [he vowed" ethics will defeat corruption".]

CLUSTER 29
   0 ---> [for many voters, the corruption allegations appeared to be a deciding factor.]
   1 ---> [while silva was also criticized for failing to appear in a presidential debate last thursday night, the corruption allegations were a deciding factor for many voters.]

CLUSTER 30
   0 ---> [i didn't vote for lula.]
   1 ---> [" but i will tell you who i didn't vote for.]

CLUSTER 31
   0 ---> [the 29 october run-off was announced late last night by election authorities after 99 percent of the vote had been counted, with president luiz inacio lula da silva getting 48.7 percent compared to 41.6 percent for the center-right geraldo alckmin, sao paulo state's former governor.]
   1 ---> [29 runoff was announced by election authorities after 98 percent of the vote had been counted, with president luiz inacio lula da silva getting 48.8 percent compared to 41.4 percent for the center-right geraldo alckmin, sao paulo state's former governor.]
   2 ---> [but with 99.9 percent of the vote counted by early monday morning, silva got 48.6 percent compared to 41.6 percent for alckmin, the former governor of sao paulo state, brazil's richest and most populous.]
   3 ---> [with 52 per cent of the ballots counted, silva had 48 per cent of the vote compared to 43 per cent for the centre-right sao paulo state governor, geraldo alckmin.]

CLUSTER 32
   0 ---> [a beaming alckmin emerged from his apartment in sao paulo shortly after midnight monday to thank brazilians" who rooted and voted for me."]
   1 ---> [he emerged from his sao paulo apartment to thank voters for their support.]

CLUSTER 33
   0 ---> [" we came up just short," added tarso genro, silva's top political adviser.]
   1 ---> [" we came up just short," genro said.]

CLUSTER 34
   0 ---> [silva saw his once-commanding lead plummet on the eve of the vote as his workers' party was battered by allegations that party officials tried to pay us$770,000 for a mysterious dossier containing documents, photos and dvds apparently linking sao paulo gubernatorial candidate jose serra to graft when he was health minister between 1998 and 2002.]
   1 ---> [silva saw his once-commanding lead plummet on the eve of the vote as his workers' party was battered by allegations that party officials tried to buy a mysterious dossier that apparently contained incriminating information about a political rival.]
   2 ---> [silva saw his once-commanding lead plummet on the eve of the vote amid newspaper reports that his workers' party planned to use smear tactics against jose serra, of alckmin's party.]

CLUSTER 35
   0 ---> [the president has denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.]
   1 ---> [silva fired his campaign manager days before the election and has denied knowledge of any intent to smear serra.]

CLUSTER 36
   0 ---> [serra belongs to alckmin's party and lost the presidency to silva in 2002 but won the race sunday night to become sao paulo state governor, handily beating the workers' party candidate.]
   1 ---> [the target of the alleged smear campaign was jose serra, an alckmin ally who won the race sunday night to become sao paulo state's next governor, handily beating the workers' party candidate.]
   2 ---> [serra won the race sunday night to become sao paulo state's next governor, handily beating the workers' party candidate.]
   3 ---> [serra, who denies wrongdoing, lost the presidency to silva in 2002 but won the race sunday night to become sao paulo state's next governor, handily beating the workers' party candidate.]

CLUSTER 37
   0 ---> [i didn't vote for lula.]
   1 ---> [" but i will tell you who i didn't vote for.]

CLUSTER 38
   0 ---> [silva's efforts to reduce poverty played well in the slums of sao paulo and rio de janeiro.]
   1 ---> [more than 125 million brazilians voted, from hamlets in the amazon to the skyscrapers of sao paulo and the violent slums of rio de janeiro to the prosperous southern farmlands.]

CLUSTER 39
   0 ---> [it distributes us$325 million ( ¤260 million ) a month to 45 million of brazil's 187 million citizens.]
   1 ---> [it distributes $325 million a month to about a quarter of brazil's 187 million people.]

CLUSTER 40
   0 ---> [more than 126 million brazilians voted in the election for the president, governors for all 26 states and the federal district, all 513 federal deputies of the lower house and 27 of the 81 senate seats.]
   1 ---> [besides the president, also up for election are 513 deputies and 27 senators in the bicameral congress, 1,059 state legislators and the governors of the country's 26 states and the federal district including brasilia.]
   2 ---> [they will also elect governors of all 26 states and the brasilia federal district, all 513 members of the chamber of deputies, 27 of the 81 senators as well as 1,059 state legislators.]

CLUSTER 41
   0 ---> [brazilians were expected yesterday to return to power president luiz inacio lula da silva for a second term in an election that may cost him significant support in congress.]
   1 ---> [some 126 million brazilians were called to cast their ballots yesterday in a race that was likely to give a second term to brazilian president luiz inacio silva da lula, a self-styled champion of the downtrodden.]

CLUSTER 42
   0 ---> [all polls published ahead of the election show lula da silva, the former union leader who swept to power four years ago on promises of helping the poor, would probably beat former sao paulo governor geraldo alckmin in yesterday?]
   1 ---> [lula, the former union leader who swept to power four years ago on promises of helping the poor, will beat rivals because of his success in boosting wages, lowering interest rates and cutting inflation, said emy shayo, an economist at bear stearns, in an interview from sao paulo.]

CLUSTER 43
   0 ---> [s first-round vote.]
   1 ---> [s treasury department.]
   2 ---> [s anti-american president.]

CLUSTER 44
   0 ---> [s first four years, said david fleischer, a political science professor at the university of brasilia.]
   1 ---> [the president's coalition in the lower house may lose about a third of its 320 seats as punishment for corruption allegations that have dogged lula's first four years, said david fleischer, a political science professor at the university of brasilia.]

CLUSTER 45
   0 ---> [lula da silva needs congres- sional support to fulfil pledges of accelerating economic growth that averaged an annual 2,5% during his first term, less than a third that of other developing states such as china and india.]
   1 ---> [lula needs congressional support to fulfill pledges of accelerating economic growth that averaged an annual 2.5 percent during his first term, less than a third that of other developing nations such as china and india.]

CLUSTER 46
   0 ---> [lula da silva?]
   1 ---> [president luiz inácio lula da silva enters yesterday?]

CLUSTER 47
   0 ---> [s election, with two polls showing it was unclear if he would get the 50% of votes needed to avoid a runoff election.]
   1 ---> [lula's lead narrowed ahead of today's election, with two polls showing it's unclear if he'll get the 50 percent of votes needs to avoid a runoff election.]

CLUSTER 48
   0 ---> [support for lula da silva fell to 45% in a weekend poll by instituto brasileiro de opiniao e pesquisa, from 48% in its september 26 poll, tv globo said.]
   1 ---> [29-30 poll conducted by instituto brasileiro de opiniao e pesquisa from 48 percent in its sept.]

CLUSTER 49
   0 ---> [no matter who wins, it will be fundamental to rebuild a political base and get necessary measures to elevate brazil?]
   1 ---> [" no matter who wins, it will be fundamental to rebuild a political base and get necessary measures to elevate brazil's economic growth rate," paulo leme, managing director for emerging markets at goldman sachs group inc., said in an interview in sao paulo.]

CLUSTER 50
   0 ---> [the benchmark lending rate is now 14,25%, down from as much as 26,5% in 2003.]
   1 ---> [the benchmark lending rate is now 14.25 percent, down from as much as 26.5 percent in 2003.]

CLUSTER 51
   0 ---> [the bovespa stock market index more than tripled under lula da silva.]
   1 ---> [the bovespa stock market index more than tripled under lula, bonds surged and the currency rallied.]

CLUSTER 52
   0 ---> [in a televised debate on thursday night alckmin pledged to crack down on government corruption and to lower taxes.]
   1 ---> [in a televised debate on sept.]

CLUSTER 53
   0 ---> [no country in the world can advance with the plague of corruption that we have here,?]
   1 ---> [" no country in the world can advance with the plague of corruption that we have here," alckmin said.]

CLUSTER 54
   0 ---> [investors are also concerned that lula da silva may sacrifice fiscal restraint to fulfil more campaign promises made to his impoverished supporters.]
   1 ---> [investors are also concerned that lula may sacrifice fiscal restraint to fulfill campaign promises.]

CLUSTER 55
   0 ---> [government spending already rose 15% in the first seven months of this year, outpacing an 11% increase in tax collection in the same period, said brazil?]
   1 ---> [government spending already rose 15 percent in the first seven months of this year, outpacing an 11 percent increase in tax collection in the same period, according to brazil's treasury department.]

CLUSTER 56
   0 ---> [s 126-million voters were to choose the president, 513 lower house deputies, 27 senators, 27 governors and 1059 state legislators.]
   1 ---> [    the polls opened on sunday for some 126 million eligible voters to elect a president, 513 federal representatives, 27 senators, 27 state governors and 1,059 state deputies.]
   2 ---> [some 126 million eligible voters will elect a president, 513 federal representatives, 27 senators, 27 state governors and 1,059 state deputies.]
   3 ---> [brazil's 126 million voters will choose the president, 513 lower house deputies, 27 senators, 27 governors and 1,059 state legislators.]

CLUSTER 57
   0 ---> [it was unlikely that there were survivors, the government said.]
   1 ---> [it's unlikely there were survivors, the government said.]

CLUSTER 58
   0 ---> [results based on almost 98% of the ballots showed president luiz inacio lula da silva garnering 48.79% to geraldo alckmin's 41.43%, and electoral authorities confirmed the two will face off in a second round of voting.]
   1 ---> [electoral authorities made the announcement as almost complete results  showed president luiz inacio lula da silva getting 48.79 percent of the vote to geraldo alckmin's 41.43 percent.]

CLUSTER 59
   0 ---> [lula would have needed 50% to avert going to the october 29 run-off against alckmin, a former sao paulo governor.]
   1 ---> [should he not get the necessary absolute majority on sunday, he would have to go to a run-off on october 29, presumably against alckmin, 53.]

CLUSTER 60
   0 ---> [while dented, his popularity has survived several scandals, thanks in part to an anti-poverty programme under which 11 million struggling families get up to $45 a month in government subsidies.]
   1 ---> [his popularity has survived a series of scandals that dogged his government and his leftist workers party thanks in part to an anti-poverty program under which 11 million struggling families get up to us$45 a month in subsidies.]

CLUSTER 61
   0 ---> [and the financial and business communities no longer perceive lula as a dangerous firebrand leftist.]
   1 ---> [and while the business communities would rather see alckmin head the next government, they no longer perceive lula as a dangerous firebrand leftist.]

CLUSTER 62
   0 ---> [the oct.]
   1 ---> [    brasilia, oct.]
   2 ---> [alckmin on oct.]
   3 ---> [    brasilia, oct.]

CLUSTER 63
   0 ---> [major newspapers ran front-page photos over the weekend showing piles of money allegedly meant to buy information showing corrupt dealings by an opponent.]
   1 ---> [major newspapers ran front-page photos over the weekend showing piles of money allegedly meant to buy information showing corrupt dealings by jose serra, of alckmin's party.]

CLUSTER 64
   0 ---> [silva's party claimed that alckmin's supporters were involved, and filed a complaint sunday with a judge demanding that alckmin's candidacy be declared invalid because of the leak.]
   1 ---> [silva's party claimed that alckmin's supporters were behind the leak and asked a judge sunday to invalidate alckmin's candidacy.]

CLUSTER 65
   0 ---> [two polls released on saturday night, the last before yesterday's first round vote, showed that lula's total share of the valid vote continues to dwindle and alckmin is closing ground fast.]
   1 ---> [two polls released on saturday night, the last before the first round, showed for the first time in the campaign that lula could fall short of the more than 50 percent of the vote needed to hand him a second term on sunday.]

CLUSTER 66
   0 ---> [the ibope poll showed lula with 45 percent of the vote, down from 48 percent on wednesday, and alckmin with 34 percent up from 32 percent.]
   1 ---> [the exit poll, broadcast by tv globo, showed lula with 50 percent of the votes and geraldo alckmin of the brazilian social democracy party with 38 percent.]
   2 ---> [support for geraldo alckmin of the social democracy party climbed to 34 percent from 32 percent, the poll showed.]

CLUSTER 67
   0 ---> [the run-off against his main rival geraldo alckmin will take place on oct.]
   1 ---> [a run-off vote will take place on october 29.]

CLUSTER 68
   0 ---> [the second round could unite the opposition against lula and give them more time to dig up further evidence of campaign wrongdoing by lula's workers' party.]
   1 ---> [that could unite the opposition against him and give them more time to dig up further evidence of campaign wrongdoing by his ruling workers' party.]

CLUSTER 69
   0 ---> [the tight contest marked a dramatic shift in the last few days.]
   1 ---> [the tight contest marked a dramatic shift in the last few days as opposition candidates assailed lula, a former union leader from a humble background, over the sleaze and corruption scandals surrounding his workers' party.]

CLUSTER 70
   0 ---> [earlier polls showed that lula, a former union leader from a humble background, had been coasting to an outright victory over a field of seven challengers, bolstered by the support of the poor and workers whose lives have improved under his first four years in office.]
   1 ---> [polls in the months leading up to the election had shown lula coasting to an easy outright victory in the first round, bolstered by the support of the poor and workers whose lives have improved because of his social and economic policies.]

CLUSTER 71
   0 ---> [voter outrage over alleged corruption and dirty tricks left brazil's president facing a tough runoff for a second term after his main rival staged a surprise comeback.]
   1 ---> [brasilia, -- brazil's leftist president faces a runoff for a second term after voters denied him an outright victory amid last-minute allegations his party engaged in a scheme of electoral corruption and dirty tricks.]

CLUSTER 72
   0 ---> [polls had predicted that president luiz inacio lula da silva would trounce the center-right geraldo alckmin with far more than the 50 percent plus one vote needed to win the contest in the first round.]
   1 ---> [lula needs 50 percent plus one vote to win in the first round.]

CLUSTER 73
   0 ---> [i didn't vote for lula.]
   1 ---> [" but i will tell you who i didn't vote for.]

CLUSTER 74
   0 ---> [alckmin, 53, a former sao paulo state governor, had 41.4 percent, election officials said.]
   1 ---> [opinion polls ahead of the election gave lula, 60, a self-styled champion of the poor, a commanding lead over former sao paulo governor geraldo alckmin, 53.]

CLUSTER 75
   0 ---> [lula needed to win a majority of votes to avoid a run-off.]
   1 ---> [one of the candidates would have to win over 50 percent of the votes to avoid a run-off election on october 29.]

CLUSTER 76
   0 ---> [the run-off election is scheduled for oct.]
   1 ---> [the oct.]

CLUSTER 77
   0 ---> [" this is not good news for the market," rotemberg said.]
   1 ---> [" this is a glorious moment for brazil because the election consolidates the democratic process," he said after voting.]

CLUSTER 78
   0 ---> [lula lost support after brazilian media published photographs over the weekend showing piles of u.s. dollars and reais allegedly intended to be used by the government to influence the election, alexandre barros, president of early warning, a brasilia-based political-risk company said in a telephone interview from belo horizonte.]
   1 ---> [support for lula dropped in the final opinion poll taken yesterday after brazilian media, including globo television and estado do sao paulo newspaper, published photos of money allegedly intended to be used by the government to influence the outcome of the election.]

CLUSTER 79
   0 ---> [" this is something that definitely has an impact for the common voter," barros saiad.]
   1 ---> [" this is something that definitely has an impact for the common voter, because he looks at it and says a portion of that is his."]

CLUSTER 80
   0 ---> [an investigation into the vote buying later led the lower house ethics committee to recommend the expulsion of 11 deputies.]
   1 ---> [in 2005, an investigation into vote buying in congress led the lower house ethics committee to recommend expulsion of 11 deputies.]

CLUSTER 81
   0 ---> [palocci won a lower house seat in yesterday's election, according to preliminary returns.]
   1 ---> [collor de mello won a senate seat in the state of alagoas, according to preliminary results.]

CLUSTER 82
   0 ---> [on sept.]
   1 ---> [brazil's electoral court said on sept.]

CLUSTER 83
   0 ---> [globo television and newspapers including estado de sao paulo published photographs of money they said was intended to be used by the government.]
   1 ---> [support for lula dropped in the final opinion poll taken yesterday after brazilian media, including globo television and estado do sao paulo newspaper, published photos of money allegedly intended to be used by the government to influence the outcome of the election.]

CLUSTER 84
   0 ---> [lula, who has denied all the allegations of graft, has promised to clamp down on corruption by tightening controls over public spending and making more information about government finances and decision-making available to the public.]
   1 ---> [lula has promised to clamp down on corruption by tightening controls over public spending and making more information about government finances and decision-making available to the public.]

CLUSTER 85
   0 ---> [    lula, 60, had enjoyed a comfortable lead in previous opinion polls, but his support dropped in the last days of campaigning amid public anger over a scandal involving members of his party.]
   1 ---> [the president had a comfortable lead in the weeks leading up to the election, but opinion polls showed a dip in support for him amid scandals involving his workers' party.]

CLUSTER 86
   0 ---> [the tight contest marked a significant shift in the last few days.]
   1 ---> [the tight contest marked a dramatic shift in the last few days as opposition candidates assailed lula, a former union leader from a humble background, over the sleaze and corruption scandals surrounding his workers' party.]

CLUSTER 87
   0 ---> [but revelations two weeks ago that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against alckmin gave his opponents new political ammunition.]
   1 ---> [but revelations that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against alckmin gave a lackluster opposition new ammunition.]

CLUSTER 88
   0 ---> [voting counting also showed that former sao paulo state governor geraldo alckmin, lula's main challenger, got 40.9 percent of ballots, it added.]
   1 ---> [his closest challenger, geraldo alckmin, a conservative former governor of the country's biggest state, sao paulo, won 41.3 percent of the vote.]
   2 ---> [alckmin, 53, a former governor of sao paulo, won 40.6 percent of the vote, initial results showed.]
   3 ---> [the runner-up, former sao paulo state governor geraldo alckmin, received about 41.6 percent.]

CLUSTER 89
   0 ---> [if he fails to get that, he and alckmin will have a runoff on oct.]
   1 ---> [if he fails to get that, he will face the second-placed candidate in a runoff on oct.]

CLUSTER 90
   0 ---> [brasilia, brazil ( reuters ) - brazil's president luiz inacio lula da silva looked almost certain to face a run-off election after a string of corruption scandals turned many voters against him in sunday's presidential election.]
   1 ---> [brasilia, brazil ( reuters ) - brazil's president luiz inacio lula da silva struggled to avoid a run-off in sunday's presidential election after public disgust over corrupt politics eroded his support in the final days of campaigning.]

CLUSTER 91
   0 ---> [geraldo alckmin, now seemed likely.]
   1 ---> [geraldo alckmin, had 40.9 percent.]
   2 ---> [geraldo alckmin, had 41 percent.]
   3 ---> [geraldo alckmin, had 40.6 percent.]
   4 ---> [geraldo alckmin, with 40.6 percent.]
   5 ---> [geraldo alckmin, with 43.36 percent.]

CLUSTER 92
   0 ---> [" the numbers confirm it," valter pomar told reporters.]
   1 ---> [the numbers confirm it," pomar told reporters, adding that he still did not rule out a surprise first-round victory for lula.]

CLUSTER 93
   0 ---> [official results showed that with 94 percent of the vote counted, lula had 49 percent and alckmin had 41 percent.]
   1 ---> [lula had about 49 percent of the votes and his main rival geraldo alckmin had about 41 percent, the country's top electoral court said after counting some 65 percent of the votes.]

CLUSTER 94
   0 ---> [the tight contest marked a dramatic shift in the last few days.]
   1 ---> [the tight contest marked a dramatic shift in the last few days and an already cut-throat political scene could be further polarised, harming the prospects of a consensus needed to pass long-mooted reforms for latin america's biggest economy.]

CLUSTER 95
   0 ---> [earlier polls showed that lula, a former union leader from a humble background, had been coasting to an outright victory over a field of seven challengers, bolstered by the support of the poor and workers whose lives have improved under his first four years in office.]
   1 ---> [polls in the months leading up to the election had shown lula coasting to an easy outright victory in the first round, bolstered by the support of the poor and workers whose lives have improved because of his social and economic policies.]

CLUSTER 96
   0 ---> [" i'm heading to the second round with a great chance of winning the election," a beaming mr alckmin told reporters.]
   1 ---> [" i'm going into the second round with a great chance of winning...]

CLUSTER 97
   0 ---> [it is four years since lula, the first left-winger to hold the country's highest office in 50 years, was elected in a landslide victory.]
   1 ---> [since lula, the first left-winger to hold the country's highest office in 50 years, was elected in a landslide victory in 2002, his welfare programmes have helped him gain strong support among the country's poor.]

CLUSTER 98
   0 ---> [sao paulo, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - brazil's presidential election is likely to go to a run-off between president luiz inacio lula da silva and his main rival geraldo alckmin, a ruling workers' party official said on sunday.]
   1 ---> [sao paulo, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - president luiz inacio lula da silva has won 46.79 percent of the votes in brazil's presidential election with 41.37 percent of the votes tallied, the top electoral court said on sunday.]

CLUSTER 99
   0 ---> [the presidential winner is expected to be announced before the midnight ( 0300 gmt monday ) when some 80 to 90 percent of the votes are counted.]
   1 ---> [the first preliminary results of the vote count are expected to be known one hour later, while brazil's electoral tribunal ( tse ) has estimated that 90 per cent of the votes should have been counted by midnight ( 0300 gmt on monday ).]

CLUSTER 100
   0 ---> [31 between the two front-runners.]
   1 ---> [31 between the two leading candidates.]

CLUSTER 101
   0 ---> [according to the latest polls, 50 percent of people surveyed supported reelection of president luiz inacio lula da silva of the workers party ( pt ).]
   1 ---> [a latest opinion poll showed that 50 percent of the people surveyed supported incumbent president luiz inacio lula da silva's re-election bid.]

CLUSTER 102
   0 ---> [official results showed that with 91 percent of the vote counted, lula had 49.3 percent and his main challenger, former sao paulo state gov.]
   1 ---> [the initial tally showed his main rival, former sao paulo state gov.]

CLUSTER 103
   0 ---> [polls in the months leading up to the election had shown lula coasting to an easy outright victory in the first round, bolstered by the support of the poor and workers whose lives have improved because of his social and economic policies.]
   1 ---> [earlier polls showed that lula, a former union leader from a humble background, had been coasting to an outright victory over a field of seven challengers, bolstered by the support of the poor and workers whose lives have improved under his four years in office.]

CLUSTER 104
   0 ---> [they also raised the memory of a string of bribery and vote-buying scandals in the past two years which have cost lula's chief of staff, his finance minister and other aides their jobs.]
   1 ---> [it all reignited memories of bribery and vote-buying scandals in the past two years which have cost lula's chief of staff, his finance minister and other aides their jobs.]

CLUSTER 105
   0 ---> [the oct.]
   1 ---> [at the u.n.]

CLUSTER 106
   0 ---> [a beaming alckmin emerged from his apartment in sao paulo shortly after midnight monday to thank brazilians" who rooted and voted for me."]
   1 ---> [he emerged from his sao paulo apartment to thank voters for their support.]

CLUSTER 107
   0 ---> [" we came up just short," genro said.]
   1 ---> [" we came up just short," added tarso genro, silva's top political adviser.]

CLUSTER 108
   0 ---> [preliminary results showed that with 72 percent of the vote counted, lula had 49 percent and his main rival, former sao paulo state gov.]
   1 ---> [the tally showed his main rival, former sao paulo state gov.]
   2 ---> [his main rival, former sao paulo governor geraldo alckmin of the social democracy party, has won 43 percent of the vote.]
   3 ---> [his main rival is geraldo alckmin, the centre-left, business-friendly former governor of sao paulo state.]

CLUSTER 109
   0 ---> [failure by lula to win an absolute majority against the seven other candidates would mean he faces a second round run-off on october 29.]
   1 ---> [until two weeks ago, former factory worker lula had been cruising to re-election with polls showing he would take an absolute majority in the first round against seven other candidates, thus avoiding a two-horse second round.]

CLUSTER 110
   0 ---> [but revelations that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against alckmin gave a lackluster opposition new ammunition.]
   1 ---> [but revelations two weeks ago that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against alckmin gave his opponents new political ammunition.]

CLUSTER 111
   0 ---> [more than 125 million brazilians voted, from hamlets in the amazon to the skyscrapers of sao paulo and the violent slums of rio de janeiro to the prosperous southern farmlands.]
   1 ---> [silva's efforts to reduce poverty played well in the slums of sao paulo and rio de janeiro.]

CLUSTER 112
   0 ---> [" i am not prejudiced ( about his class background ).]
   1 ---> [" i'm not prejudiced.]

CLUSTER 113
   0 ---> [brasilia, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva was battling to secure the votes needed to clinch an outright victory in sunday's presidential election after public disgust over corrupt politics eroded his support in the final days of campaigning.]
   1 ---> [sao paulo, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - president luiz inacio lula da silva has 49.6 percent of the votes in brazil's presidential election with 80 percent of the votes tallied, leaving him short of an absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff, official results showed on sunday.]

CLUSTER 114
   0 ---> [1 ( bloomberg ) -- brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva led challenger geraldo alckmin in an early count of ballots from today's election and was about 1 percentage point short of avoiding a runoff.]
   1 ---> [1 ( bloomberg ) -- brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva won 50 percent of votes in a first ballot and may head to an oct.]

CLUSTER 115
   0 ---> [brasilia, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - president luiz inacio lula da silva has a chance of winning a second term in the first-round of voting held on sunday, his campaign chief told reporters.]
   1 ---> [sao paulo, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - brazilians voted in elections on sunday with signs that public disgust over sleazy politics might prevent president luiz inacio lula da silva from securing the outright victory that seemed a foregone conclusion until a few weeks ago.]

CLUSTER 116
   0 ---> [lula needs over 50 percent of the votes to win in the first round.]
   1 ---> [lula needs to garner over 50 percent of votes to win the election outright and avoid a runoff against the second-placed candidate on oct.]
   2 ---> [7 percent of the votes -- shy of the 50 percent needed to win reelection outright and avert an oct.]

CLUSTER 117
   0 ---> [local time.]
   1 ---> [local time ( 7 a.m.]

CLUSTER 118
   0 ---> [    the poll revealed that lula will get 50 percent of the valid votes, while alckmin from the social democracy party will get 38 percent.]
   1 ---> [the polls showed that the other candidates will get 50 percent of the valid votes altogether.]

CLUSTER 119
   0 ---> [it is four years since lula, the first left-winger to hold the country's highest office in 50 years, was elected in a landslide victory.]
   1 ---> [since lula, the first left-winger to hold the country's highest office in 50 years, was elected in a landslide victory in 2002, his welfare programmes have helped him gain strong support among the country's poor.]

CLUSTER 120
   0 ---> [the 60-year-old da silva had a commanding lead before recent revelations that members of his leftist workers' party tried to buy damaging information about his political opponents.]
   1 ---> [silva saw his once-commanding lead plummet on the eve of the vote as his workers' party was battered by allegations that party officials tried to buy a mysterious dossier that apparently contained incriminating information about a political rival.]

CLUSTER 121
   0 ---> [i didn't vote for lula.]
   1 ---> [" but i will tell you who i didn't vote for.]

CLUSTER 122
   0 ---> [silva's efforts to reduce poverty played well in the slums of sao paulo and rio de janeiro.]
   1 ---> [da silva's campaign theme -- that he has proven he can reduce poverty -- resonates from the urban slums of são paulo and rio de janeiro to brazil's impoverished northeast, where da silva was born.]

CLUSTER 123
   0 ---> [the lula, 60, who rose from shining shoes in city streets to the leadership of latin america's largest country, is facing off against geraldo alckmin of the centrist brazilian social democracy party ( psdb ) and six other candidates.]
   1 ---> [polls show the 60-year-old lula, who rose from shining shoes in city streets to the leadership of latin america's largest country, has a dwindling lead over his nearest rival geraldo alckmin of the centrist brazilian social democracy party, or psdb.]

CLUSTER 124
   0 ---> [as well as the presidential contests, brazilians are voting for state governors, congress and state assemblies.]
   1 ---> [as well as the presidential contest, brazilians voted for state governors, congress and state assemblies.]

CLUSTER 125
   0 ---> [brasilia, brazil ( reuters ) - president luiz inacio lula da silva must fight his main challenger in a run-off vote after many brazilians turned against him in sunday's presidential election and punished the former union leader for a string of corruption scandals.]
   1 ---> [sao paulo, brazil, oct 1 ( reuters ) - president luiz inacio lula da silva's standing as a man of the people may not be enough to carry him to victory when brazilians vote in a presidential election on sunday.]

CLUSTER 126
   0 ---> [more than 125 million brazilians cast their ballots, from hamlets in the amazon to the skyscrapers of sao paulo and the violent slums of rio de janeiro to the prosperous southern farmlands.]
   1 ---> [about 125 million brazilians are due to vote, from hamlets in the amazon jungle to the skyscrapers of the megalopolis sao paulo, the violent slums of rio de janeiro to the prosperous farmlands of the south.]

CLUSTER 127
   0 ---> [heloisa helena, 44, a senator from the solidarity and freedom party, and cristovam buarque, 62, the candidate from the labor party, are third and fourth in the polls.]
   1 ---> [heloisa helena, from the socialism and freedom party, trailed in the third place with 10 percent.]