Salam Pax, the Baghdad blogger, believes Musings On Iraq was too gloomy about Sunni turnout – a worry I echoed in one of my posts:
The four Iraqi governorates with a majority Sunni population are Mosul, Diayala, Salah al-Din and Anbar and here are the voter participation numbers as posted on Musings on Iraq:
………………………2009 2005
Mosul ………………60% 17%
Diayala …………….57% 34%
Salah al-Din ………65% 29%
Anbar………………..40% 2%Not only have more people voted in each of the Sunni provinces this year but Salah al-Din has the highest voter turn out in Iraq, more than 10% above the national average.
It looks as if Salam may be right. My worry was Anbar. The Dish will keep monitoring the still-incomplete results and still-evolving interpretation of them.
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