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Originally Posted by cthulu23
About the Spain bombing, the ruling conservative party was already very unpopular, particularly for their involvement in Iraq, and the race was a dead heat. After the bombing the ruling party tried to blame the action on Basque seperatists even though their own intelligence indicated that it was Al Qaeda related. This duplicity may have been the last straw for the Spanish voters.
As for the American reaction to a similar bombing, I'm pretty sure that it would galvanize support for Bush but such things are pretty much impossible to accurately predict.
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A lot of people don't seem to know that the Socialist opposition pary in Spain had
already stated that they would withdraw from Iraq before the bombings.
Whether more people voted for them due to the attack itself is a moot point.
Mr Mephisto