Looks like he beat the earlier ‘polls’ by quite a bit.
They said 38% at best for him, he got 46%.
FakeNewsMSM lied and lied about his popularity. 22% claimed BBC:
10 Sept: BBC: Bolsonaro: Brazil politician’s health ‘improving’ after stabbing
Polls suggest Mr Bolsonaro is the favourite to win the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections on 7 October with an estimated 22% of the vote...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45470986
as election loomed closer, time to report something closer to the truth, so as not to be embarrassed:
5 Oct: TheCourierAustralia: AAP: Bolsonaro leads Brazil presidential poll
The Datafolha poll found Bolsonaro had 35 per cent support, a three percentage point jump since Tuesday...
https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/5686094/bolsonaro-leads-brazil-presidential-poll/
now FakeNewsMSM is suggesting polls show “tied runoff”. compared pics of Bolsonaro and Haddad in the following:
8 Oct: BBC: Brazil election: Far-right Jair Bolsonaro wins first round
With almost all the votes counted, Mr Bolsonaro had 47% and Mr Haddad 28%.
Opinion polls conducted before the election predicted that in a second round the two candidates would be tied...
Mr Bolsonaro has stirred controversy with racist, homophobic and misogynist comments and there have been mass demonstrations against him...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45780176
8 Oct: UK Express: Brazilian Trump? Exit polls show TSUNAMI in favour of right-wing presidential candidate
BRAZIL could elect its very own Donald Trump as a populist, former army captain who praises dictatorships could become the next Brazilian president, polls have indicated.
By Sam Stevenson
Murillo de Arag, head of the Arko political risk firm in Brasilia, said: Exit polls are showing a tsunami....
Mr Bolsonaro, who compares his campaign to US President Donald Trump’s 2016 run, dismissed as fake news the accusations of sexism, racism and homophobia that he has stirred with a record of offensive comments...
An Ibope exit poll for the Rio de Janeiro governor race showed former judge Wilson Witzel, a Bolsonaro ally, scoring a shock victory over former Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes.
The result offers a substantial boost to presidential hopeful Mr Bolsonaros campaign as his political ideology takes root and gains ground in the colossal South American nation...
A deep disillusionment has been sown in the minds of the Brazilian public as they blame PT (Workers Party) for rampant corruption which has led to successive impeachments...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1028223/Brazil-election-2018-Jair-Bolsonaro-Donald-Trump-Social-Liberal-Party-workers-party
So Brasil’s mainstream media polls are as good as our mainstream media polls?
Believable!