Turnout yesterday was between 55 and 60 percent in Iraq. That strikes me as a remarkable and encouraging thing. And we didn’t know the results of the election in advance!

Consider the turnout there the fruits of a combination of anger at violence and corruption and also a confidence in some signs of economic progress in the south. Or so Michael Rubin tells me this morning (Seth Leibsohn and I just interviewed him on Morning in America, which I’m guest co-hosting . . . I’ll post a link to the Rubin audio later today).