Brazil Election - 5 October 2014

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The only thing I'm seeing here is apologism of a dictature, which usually isn't allowed or tolerated here.

Don't worry, we're watching this thread and if it gets too out of hand or the comments get horrendous, I'll take necessary action.

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SP-Senate, exit poll

Serra (PSDB) - 49%
Suplicy (PT) - 34%
Kassab (PSD) - 9%

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RJ-Senate, exit poll

Romário (PSB) – 62%
Cesar Maia (DEM) – 22%
Liliam Sá (PROS) – 6%

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The runoff is the top two.

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In Pará's gubernatorial race, Helder Barbalho (PMDB-PT), the son of infamously corrupt senator Jader Barbalho, leads the PSDB governor 51-47 with about 6.6% reporting.

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Jesus, Serra is delivering quite the smacking to Suplicy right now.

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Anywhere we can see live results by regional breakdown?

http://placar.eleicoes.uol.com.br/2014/1turno/ac/

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Where did you get that map?

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Parties in the Chamber of Deputies (513)

The issue is that, besides a few parties (like the PT and PSDB - and even then), most Brazilian parties have absolutely no coherent ideology - they change appearances and 'ideologies' to fit in with the prevailing environment (parties like the PMDB, PP, PR, PRB etc are the best examples), while many individual politicians change parties as often as they change clothes. Trying to come up with some ideological descriptor for these parties is a waste of time and meaningless.

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I seem to recall Cardozo openly declaring himself to be an atheist when he was President - no one seemed to think that was a big deal...

Cardoso never declared himself to be an atheist, but Janio famously ran a smear campaign accusing FHC of being an atheist who would put weed in school lunches in the 1985 mayoral race in SP.

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The PR/PP aren't right-wing. They're corrupt whores.

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A bit less than 85% of all precincts have been counted nationally, with 40 minutes to final poll closing time. Unless the election is Florida 2000-redux, it should be a clear and irreversible lead.

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The Ibovespa futures market will open way down.  BRL will be down significantly once FX trading starts.

This isn't the Economics board.

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I've said it before, but since certain people are apparently illiterate, I need to say it again: this isn't the Economics board. Take the 'but muh stocks' and related discussion to where it belongs. This thread is solely for discussing the election and its results. I won't say it again.

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Predicting an election in 4-5 years time in any country is silliness and anybody who says otherwise is a fool, a liar or a domkop. This is even truer in Brazil.

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Hmm, I understand that some people within PMDB would want to run a presidential candidate, given the reward would be great, but that can be dangerous, given that PMDB has already established themselves as a party of (sucking on the) system and the presidential run could put their position in jeopardy.

With that in mind, what sort of person votes PMDB?

As I've previously said in this thread, voting in Brazil is based very, very heavily on personality/candidate rather than partisanship (especially downballot). Otherwise, the PMDB is a very powerful patronage machine. Needless to say, some people receive the benefits of that patronage.

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... that's not his daughter.