Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information Francisca Vieira Gomes and her husband outside their home in Brazil’s northeast state of Ceara Bolsonaro trails in polls for the presidential election The outcome may yet hinge on government subsidies in a nation riven by inequality XLinkedInEmailLinkGiftFacebookXLinkedInEmailLinkGiftBy April 13 2022 at 1:33 PM EDTBookmarkSaveHawking his goods by the roadside in the northeast town of Salgueiro traveling salesman Matheus Silva has a new line in this election year in Brazil car seat covers and hammocks that are his mainstay on a recent weekday Silva was selling towels at 35 reais ($7) apiece featuring the two main candidates for the presidency By late afternoon he’d sold four showing President Jair Bolsonaro he’d shifted more Bolsonaros earlier in the neighboring town of Cabrobo