Brazil’s Election Is Tight

The Economist: “Polls underestimated support for Mr Bolsonaro in the first round. All now suggest that the result will be close… However, one of two maxims about Brazilian elections is bound to be upturned. Since the country’s return to democracy in 1985, the candidate who was ahead in the first round of the election has always gone on to win the run-off. But a sitting president has never lost.”