From a reader:

Jonah,
While I agree with the rest of The Corner that the election of appeasing socialists in Spain should be viewed as capitulation to terror, it also illustrates your point about the dangers of increasing voter turnout for turnout’s sake. If you read some of the quotes of Spanish voters, it appears that there were many who voted for the first time in this election. It seems like a significant portion of the Spanish electorate actually viewed voting as a way to show that they would NOT be cowed by terrorists. It is not clear from my reading how many of these people changed their minds about voting for the Popular Party in the 4-day period after the election, but I’ll bet many would have voted Socialist anyway.
David