33,871,648 / 281,421,906 = 12%
So 11.5% would be about right for CA's percentage of the population.
The 2003 estimates are: California population 35,484,453, and U.S. total resident population 290,809,777. That makes California's population 12.2% of the total, so it has lost soldiers in Iraq at
less than the national average. (Of course some of that may be because of a higher-than-average percentage of illegal aliens in California).
If Boxer keeps this up, she may be unbeatable in the Democratic primaries in 2008. Watch out, Hillary!