Where have we seen this before? "Maliki's slate will lose the popular vote but win 90 seats, compared with 87 seats for Allawi..."

Unrest ahead with the Sunni peripheral states financing and providing sanctuary ... LATimes/ here

"... An analysis of the latest figures by the U.S. military has projected that Maliki's slate will lose the popular vote but win 90 parliamentary seats, compared with 87 seats for the Iraqiya list of his rival Iyad Allawi, a secular Shiite and previous prime minister. Such a narrow outcome would make it difficult for Maliki to cobble together a ruling coalition in parliament, observers say, explaining the unease among Maliki supporters...."