Great Day for Iraqis - Bad Day for Democrats

I am not sure how this will be spent as a negative -- but at the end of the day it is good news for Iraq and freedom, which translates to bad news for the "gloom and doom" democrats.
Heavy Sunni Turnout Is Reported; No Large-Scale Attacks by Rebels - New York Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 15 - In a day remarkable for the absence of large-scale violence, millions of Iraqi voters, many of them dressed in their best and traveling with other family members, streamed to the polls today to cast ballots in a nationwide election as Iraqi leaders predicted that the vote would split almost evenly between secular and Islamist parties."
n spite of some explosions in Baghdad and Ramadi, voting appeared to be strong in many parts of the country, including in Sunni neighborhoods where many people boycotted the last election.
"The numbers are larger than the previous election," Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States ambassador here, told CNN this morning.