Brazilian presidential and general elections 2022 (1st round: October 2nd, 2nd round: October 30th)

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What is the best site to follow the results, ideally with a NYTimes style map if it's not too much to ask?

Can Lula realistically win in first round?

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What is the most right-wing immigrant Brazilian community? I'm guessing the American one, especially those in Florida.

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To me, as a colombian, it's always been incredible how insulated we are from Brazil. People here rarely hear anything from the South American giant (other than football of course), and I suppose the same is true from the brazilian perspective. We hear a lot more from Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela obviously, than from Brazil. The US and Spain are also common freatures in the international section of our news media. Brazil is rarely mentioned. Lately, the odd antic from Bolsonaro and that's about it.

Colombia and Brazil have very little relations despite being neighbors. I guess it is because our shared border is in the middle of the Amazon. And this is precisely the issue in which both countries could relate to each other the most right now, with deforestation in both countries running rampant.

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I feel bummed, I don't know, it seems that Lula won't make it in the first round, I was really hoping so.

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Quoting in this forum is a nightmare, I literaly have no idea how to do it properly.

Anyways, I wanted to reply to a comment about Pentecostals. I've known my fair share of pentecostals, starting from members of my family, and I've even visited one of the "temples" of the "Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios" (Universal Church of the Kingdom of God), a Brazilian mega church that has several "temples" here in Colombia. They even used to had a TV program that lasted for about 2 hours, in which a preacher would answer questions from the public, pray, and go in long rants. The guy was Brazilian as well.

Besides preaching extremely conservative values (and when I say extreme, I mean it), to the point of not only opposing same-sex marriage for example, but the idea of homosexuality itself, and to the point of prohibiting women from wearing pants, and asking them to wear only long skirts... those type of churches also preach a sort of prosperity gospel that American forumers must be very familiar with.

This kind of rethoric as we know, downplays structural reasons for poverty, and makes it seem that it all comes down to personal responsability, virtue, and so on. So in the end those who are rich are rich because they deserve all of their wealth, and those who are poor are poor because they have not done enough.

So this combination of extreme, ancient conservative values, and the prosperity gospel I just talked about, leads to a very very right-wing electorate among members of the lower-middle class and even the lower class who go to those places.

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I also wanted to ask what is the reason why the southernmost part of Rio Grande do Sul shifted to the left so strongly this time? essentially all those municipalities that are close or border Uruguay...

How are those areas different from the rest of the state? are they poorer?