Woah.
Posted on 10/05/2014 6:25:47 PM PDT by Perdogg
Brazil's unpredictable election took another twist Sunday, with left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff being forced into a runoff race as expected, but against a center-right challenger who only surged in the final week of the campaign.
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Dilma (PT) 41.56%
Neves (PSDB) 33.60%
Marina Silva (PSB) 21.30%
Neves did well in Parana and Sao Paulo and the Southeast; Dilma took the Nordeste and Silva took Pernambuco and Acre.
Neves doing well in the Southeast and Sao Paulo is encouraging. Maybe Brazil is not lost - yet. If there is a Brazil ping please put me on it.
Who did we want to win this? I know Rouseff is a commie. Were other challengers better
Rousseff should have won outright. But scandals and Brazil’s humiliation in its World Cup tournament are dragging her down. Its never a good sign when the incumbent is well under 50%.
Neves is the best of the three. He is the center right pro-business candidate.
No one expected her to get over 50%. In Fact, she underpolled in 2010.
Dilma’s main opposition on the left, Eduardo Campos who threatened to badly split her vote, happened to die suddenly in a plane crash 13 August 2014.
Just lucky for the commie, I guess.
Marina Silva is an Environmentalist/Socialist.
Woah.
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