Terrorists 1, Spain 0

What other conclusion can be drawn from the Spanish election other than that Al Qaeda (or, now much less likely, the ETA) was sucessful in its desire to influence the election? By all accounts the voters went to the polls convinced that the Aznar government was a bunch of "liars" who had brought this upon Spain by their support of the United States. Bin Laden was convinced that the United States was weak, that it was a rotten core with a weak husk that could be easily toppled with a few acts of terror. It didn't work here; but so far it seems to have worked in Madrid.