Since the Bush campaign dare not bring this up (it might upset the New York Times, you know) and since our side seems way outgunned in the 527 game, I seriously doubt that many Americans are aware of this. Nor will they ever be.
Well at least we know whose side PM Howard is on-one of his sons is working on President Bush's re-election campaign in Washington.
Remember how the MSM trumpeted the fact that the Spanish government at the time was defeated in favor of the party who pulled their troops from Iraq,as some signal defeat for President Bush? But not a peep about PM Howard's historic win. There would have been a cacaphony of peeps if he'd lost.