To the Left
First, voters on the left in Spain sent a message, then in France. Now South Korea, where the liberal Uri Party has taken dominant control of the legislature.

"South Korean voters swept the Uri Party allied to impeached President Roh Moon-hyun into power Thursday in key legislative elections. The vote handed control of the National Assembly to a party whose top leadership advocates rapprochement with North Korea and greater independence from the United States, Seoul's traditional ally.
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With 94 percent of the ballots counted, the Uri Party more than tripled its representation in the 299-seat National Assembly to at least 150 seats, taking majority control from the establishment-dominated Grand National Party (GNP), which gained at least 122 seats, according to official tallies cited by South Korea's KBS news.

Thursday's elections were largely seen as a referendum on Roh's surprise impeachment last month -- an act applauded by South Koreans who still harbor memories of the Korean War, but viewed by younger voters, who now make up almost half the electorate, as a political coup against Roh's more liberal stances on North Korea, the U.S.-South Korean alliance and the direction of national economic policy."

Josh Marshall thinks this impeachment-election is something of a mirror to the post-impeachment electoral sentiment here in the US.

"There are at least a couple points of interest here. One is an uncanny parallel to recent events in the United States. An out-of-touch conservative opposition party impeaches a liberal president on the basis of essentially trumped up charges against the overwhelming wishes of the public. Conservative party then faces a fierce backlash at the polls as the electorate punishes them for an attempted constitutional coup and ignoring the popular will."

Fierce backlash? I wish. Maybe he forgot, or maybe I'm missing the point, but Democrats did not gain control of the House or Senate in 98 (while impeachment talk was in the air) or in 2000 (the first post impeachment congressional election), and there was certainly no anti-Republican backlash in the Presidential election, so it's hard to see the parallel. We can only hope that this November we follow a similar electoral trend to the rest of the world. Otherwise relations will only continue to grow more and more strained.