Spanish General Election 2011

[Insula Dei]

I can see that Julio predictions for Madrid failed, PSOE ended being smashed. UPyD got enough votes from soft-right (Vargas Llosa endorsed it).  I'm surprised that Revilla is failing to get his seat in Cantabria. Cascos failed to make major inroads, as PP is winning Asturias and FAC has a small margin over IU.

Rajoy still did worse than Aguirre in Madrid though.

The Cantabrian PP did a great job tying Revilla to Zapatero. It was a superb result for Diego, first time a party wins 4 seats.

UPyD got some support from the not so soft right too. For example, Jiménez Losantos said he'd vote for them and I know a few persons who generally vote UPN/PP who did the same, including my very conservative boyfriend. I think Diez benefited primarily from the PSOE implosion but to a smaller extent from the certainty of the PP majority.

I didn't want to vote for Rajoy unless absolutely necessary, but I can't stand Diez and the UPyD, so I ended up not voting for the Congress and voted DNE for the Senate as a protest vote. People like me could have delivered GBAI that escaño at the expenses of the UPN. As Rick Perry would say... ooops. They should have nominated Aguirre.

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