Rabello de Castro’s irony is apt, for it is difficult to say which candidate represents “more of the same”: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running for re-election and is the favorite according to the polls, or former Governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin, of the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party, which governed Brazil for eight years before Lula, with Fernando Henrique Cardoso as President).