Sunni Muslims withdraw from Iraqi elections
The largest party of Iraq's Sunni Muslims, the minority who ruled the roost under Saddam, has withdrawn from next month's elections. But the UN reports that Iraqi voters will still have 6,250 candidates to pick from in races for the 275-member national assembly.
That's an average of almost 23 candidates per seat, which is a lot more variety than Americans get when we vote in gerrymandered contests for the U.S. House of Lords Representatives.