Today I have been running in and out of meetings in Brussels all day, so I’ll have to make these blog posts quick and off-the-cuff. In discussing the election of Barack Obama with some colleagues here, it again occurred to me that many European elections may be powerfully affected – especially those whose central platform had been one of anti-Americanism and confrontation with the Bush White House. Case in point, I think that Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) is going be a much bigger loser than John McCain in their upcoming elections.