Nearly 30% of people who voted for the PSOE in 2008 will sit the election out in utter disgust and contempt at the PSOE's economic policies since May 2010 (which, in fact, have been for naught as far as the crisis has gone), topped by an insane right-wing constitutional reform steamrolled through the parliament as an emergency measure with little debate and no referendum, on the excuse that it would "avert a 'rescue' of Spain" (and look at Spain's bond yields now - so, also a failure on its own terms).

To err is of course human. But to mess things up spectacularly, we need an elite — Yanis Varoufakis