Brazilian voters turned a joke candidate into the country’s top vote-getter

Evidence

Tiririca received far more votes than any other congressional candidate in the history of Brazil. He got twice as many votes as the second-most-popular candidate for the legislature that year; he got double the amount that any “real” politician received. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 182

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A Brazilian clown ran for Congress on a candidly absurd platform — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 178; Brazilian voters used vote-for-a-clown jokes to signal disgust with politics — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 178; A self-declared ignorant TV clown became Brazil’s most-voted congressional candidate ever — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 182

Broader Connections

• A self-declared ignorant TV clown became Brazil’s most-voted congressional candidate ever #expands (0.95) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 182
• Brazilian voters used vote-for-a-clown jokes to signal disgust with politics #expands (0.85) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 178