Today was the presidential election in Brazil. All the polls had left wing communist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva crushing conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a landslide election. Problem is, just like the polls in this country, the polls in Brazil showing Lula was huge leads oversampled leftists. Neither candidate got over 50% in the election, so it goes to a runoff on October 30th.
Brazil’s presidential election is headed for a run-off vote, electoral authorities said on Sunday, after President Jair Bolsonaro’s surprising strength in a first-round vote spoiled rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s hopes of winning outright.
Several opinion surveys had shown Lula leading Bolsonaro by 10-15 percentage points ahead of Sunday’s vote. The much tighter result dashed expectations of a quick resolution to a deeply polarized election in the world’s fourth-largest democracy.
Bolsonaro had questioned polls that showed him losing to Lula in the first round, saying they did not capture enthusiasm he saw on the campaign trail. He has also attacked the integrity of Brazil’s electronic voting system without evidence, and suggested he might not concede if he lost.
Political observers had said a wide margin of victory for Lula could sap Bolsonaro of support to challenge the electoral results. But Sunday’s vote, extending a tense and violent election by another four weeks, revitalized his campaign.
Let this be a lesson to conservative Americans who may see left wing polls in this country and feel like their vote wouldn’t matter come November. Get out and vote, America’s communist Democrats must be defeated soundly at the ballot box!