Moqtada, Sistani & Hakim, the Future of Najaf

"It's impossible to put a definitive number on Moqtada's supporters on the ground but a strong indication is the 650,000 votes his candidates managed to win in the national elections. If we take the 11.5 million voters as an indication of the representation of the population we can estimate the Sadrists represent 1.7 million people on the street. The mathematics is not fool-proof but if we use the same method with the 2.47 million Kurdish votes (KDP, PUK, Gorran and the Islamists) it gives the indication the Kurds account for 22% of the Iraqi population - not far from the real demographics."
Eye Raki