Over 170 have been killed in Madrid terror attacks!

[All Along The Watchtower]

If there is a major terrorist atrocity during an election campaign, there's a good chance the incumbent party is stiffed whatever happens. But what you *don't* do, is deliberately lie about who dunnit.

IMO that remains the major political lesson from these terrible events two decades ago.

Or you could say this:

Senior US officials said voters had appeased terrorists by rejecting Jose Maria Aznar's government - a key US ally in the war on Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3572565.stm