Brazil Election - 5 October 2014

[MaxQue]

A big maneuver is going to happen. Marina Silva is going to join PSB and can form an alliance with Campos. PSB received some notorious right-wingers in last times, like Paulo Bornhausen (son of Jorge Bornhausen) and Heráclito Fortes (one of DEM defeated senators by left-wing wave in 2010).

Point being Marina Silva is now seen as right-wing (courting reactionary evangelicals of late) or PSB accepting anyone (ideologically-vacant)?

Who cares? She is just a sell-out, that's all we need to know.

[MaxQue]

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

[MaxQue]

Kardecist?

[MaxQue]

How convenient! A candidate dies in shady circumstrances and is replaced by someone polling better. That's fishy.

[MaxQue]

How convenient! A candidate dies in shady circumstrances and is replaced by someone polling better. That's fishy.

Except no one powerful really benefits from Silva's rise. In fact, most of Campos' original backers are probably anxious about it.

I think it's more about getting Rouseff out of office, rather than putting Silva in.

[MaxQue]

A near 6% of invalid votes and 4% of blank votes add up to just less than 10% spoiled ballots : a whole hell of a lot ! Is it always similar in brazilian elections ? Why is that ?

Mandatory voting is probably a big cause.

[MaxQue]

Looks like Dilma will face a tough runoff ...

Not so sure. It seems than most voters swinging between and Silva and Neves finally picked Neves. The remaining Silva voters are more likely to prefer Dilma to Neves.

[MaxQue]

The Economist endorsed Aécio Neves. No surprises.

In the USA, The Economist has already endorsed republican and democratic candidates. In the UK, The Economist has already endorsed conservative and labour candidates. In Italy, The Economist has already been against Berlusconi. Outside these three countries, this newspaper had always endorsed the candidates of the Right.

They endorsed Labor in 2013 in Australia.

[MaxQue]

According to analysts, the dollar rate could rise up to 10% tomorrow and Ibovespa will probably be stopped by a circuit breaker (after a 10% loss). Let's wait and see how big the nightmare will be.

Tomorrow I'll try to make my election recap, winners/losers, and a quick projection for 2016 and 2018.

Good God! What's Dilma promising that's freaking out investors so much?

They are throwing a fit because their puppet didn't won.