The Economist provides some interesting details on the PP loss in Spain:

On Friday night, the Spanish people united to march through the streets expressing their anger at the perpetrators of the train bombings. Around 11m people—more than a quarter of Spain’s population—took part in the demonstrations. But the mood of unity quickly came under strain, as suspicions grew of an Islamist link to the bombings. On Saturday there were protests in a number of Spanish cities by anti-war protesters, accusing the government of holding back information on the bombings to manipulate the election results. This came as one of Spain’s leading newspapers, El País, revealed a memo that it said the foreign minister, Ana Palacio, had sent to Spain’s diplomats. In it, she instructed them to “use any opportunity” to blame ETA for the attacks, “thus helping to dissipate any type of doubt that certain interested parties may want to promote.”

Of course, when all the chickens are counted it's likely that it was *both* AQ and ETA. But never mind the facts, politics for the left is all about hatred -- of everyone except cold-blooded totalitarian and theocratic killers. The church of the left grows ever toward the stars...