THERE'S A CRUCIAL ELECTION in Spain this Sunday; Zapatero seems to be ahead in the polls, generally by the margin of error, making it a statistical tie. So it'll be interesting to see what pans out. Unfortunately I don't have much time to blog about the runup, but if you want to read something ahead of the vote to see how things are standing you can use this roundup of by John of Iberian Notes about what the English-language media are saying. And in general scroll down, he's great.