Iraqi Election Results

While not yet "certified", the results of the Iraqi vote are in. The skinny is that Shiites and Kurds won BIG. Sunnis won almost nothing, but then they also voted in miniscule numbers. And it appears they are aware it may have been a miscalculation.

The Shiite-dominated ticket received 4.075 million votes. A Kurdish alliance was second with 2.175 million votes and Allawi's list was third with about 1.168 million. Of Iraq's 14 million eligible voters, 8,456,266 cast ballots, the commission said. That represents a turnout of about 60 percent...Election officials said only 3,775 valid votes were cast in the insurgency-plagued Sunni province of Anbar. About 1.75 million votes were cast in the Kurdish-ruled areas of northern Iraq. Iraqis living in those areas also elected a new regional parliament.

Here's hoping among those elected there is an Iraqi Ben Franklin, et. al. ready to lead his people to a new freedom and a new international identity.