[EdnaMode]

Wow that's really impressive. Hope he wins the next round. :D

[rovenstinez]

Sounds like another wave of the Trump Effect

[mrsmith]

Wow 47%! Seems a cinch for the next round.

Boy he’s taking on a hard job- like Trump did. Hope he’s as intrepid..

[Wuli]

All these “populist” victories never get the credit they deserve, which is they show the elites are the unpopular ones and no longer can pretend to represent average folks. They represent their own socilaistt/progressive/marxist agendas but not “the people”.

[FreeReign]

MBGA? or for the first time.

[Balding_Eagle]

Looks like he beat the earlier ‘polls’ by quite a bit.

They said 38% at best for him, he got 46%.

[marktwain]

Bolsonaro is pushing for reform of the gun laws, so that ordinary Brazilians can own guns to defend themselves.

Brazil has extremely strickt gun laws, and one of the highest murder rates in the world.

[montag813]

2:1 in 1st round, I’d say he’s going to win rather easily in the 2nd

[AuH2ORepublican]

Conservative candidate Jair Bolsonaro easily finishes first in the first round of voting in Brazil’s presidential election. His 46.1% of the vote (with 99.8% of precincts reporting) was far higher than his expected mid-to-high-30s result. Because (as usual in Brazil, which has like a dozen presidential candidates) no one got to 50%+1, Bolsonaro will face second-place finisher Fernando Haddad (from imprisoned President Lula’s Leftist party), who got 29.2%, in the October 28 runoff. It should be noted that another center-right candidate got 4.8%, so Bolsonaro has a fairly easy road to 50%+1 in the runoff, whereas Haddad would need to get votes from like ten other left-of-center candidates and hope for high Leftist turnout; my money is on Bolsonaro. Here are the most recent results:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-brazil-election/

BTW, the media keeps calling Bolsonaro a “far-rightist,” but his views would be unremarkable for a mainstream Republican in Alabama or Wyoming. If he’s “far-right,” then so am I.

[ek_hornbeck]

It's especially impressive when you consider that Bolsonaro had to conduct most of his campaign from an ICU thanks to a deranged leftist would-be assassin.

I'm very happy for Bolsonaro and his prospects for moving Brazilian politics in the right direction. If he keeps the 46% that he won in the first round, he only needs to pick up a little over 4% to win the general election. However, given the prospects for voter fraud in a country whose corruption makes our sleazy political process looks squeaky clean, that might seem too optimistic.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The two Leftists combined don’t come close to his vote total. A very good sign.