Oh boy, another math problem... This time it's the voter turnout in Iraq. Our administration is touting the huge turnout as a mandate for change in Iraq. OK here goes. There were 14.2 million people eligible to vote in the election from Iraq. There were an additional 280,000 expatriates able to cast their votes world-wide. Almost 94% of these expatriates voted in the last few days. Iraqis living in Iraq were able to cast their ballots on Sunday. The total votes were 265,148. And of that total, 78,385 cast their ballots on Sunday. OK that's all the data. Now let's solve for 'X'. How many people in Iraq voted? What percentage of the population?

First of all, 94% of 280,000 expatriates is 263,200. That's how many votes came from the outside community. 265,148 minus the 263,200 expatriates who voted is 1,948. That's how many people in Iraq actually voted. Bonus points... How many expats voted on Sunday? 78,385 - 1,948 is 76,437. Now for the Iraqi turnout. 1,948 divided by 14.2 million. 0.000137. Multiply by a hundred to get percent. 0.01 percent of the population. That's not one percent. It's point-oh-one percent. Only about one in ten thousand Iraqis went to the polls. Contrast this to what they're showing and telling you on CNN...

Exxon/Mobil posts the largest quarterly profit of any corporation ever. We'll save that math problem for another day.