Here's another bold prediction from the NY Times editorial page:

Iraq's Election Gamble

That sounds like a goal everyone should support. Yet thousands of Iraqi insurgents are expected to mount violent attacks while millions of other Iraqis - the intimidated and the alienated - seem likely to sit out the vote.

You read that right - there will be thousands of attacks tomorrow.

And by the way, the tens of millions of people who regularly ignore our own elections are greater than the entire population of Iraq - that doesn't make the elections illegitimate.

Another interesting comparison that I've been reading that I'll throw in for fun. The media seems to be focused on Sunni participation as the benchmark for the legitimacy of the Iraqi vote, regardless of the overall turnout. Since this is the minority that benefitted most from Saddam's tyrannical regime, why should we care? When South Africa held it's first free elections after apartheid, was the left claiming that the elections wouldn't be legitimate if the Afrikaaners didn't show up at the polls?