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By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) -As frontrunner in the Philippines’ presidential race, the son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos appears poised to complete a remarkable rebranding of the family name 36 years after a “people power” uprising ended his father’s autocratic rule. With official campaigning beginning on Tuesday, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., 64, holds a double-digit lead in the polls, three months ahead of the May 9 elections. His push for the presidency has been aided by what political analysts say has been a decades-long public relations effort to alter public perception of his family and s…