If any election were won by a 4 to 1 margin, it would be a landslide, but since it happened in Iraq, it's viewed by the msm, as a defeat of the sunni {terrorists/freedom fighters/patriots}.
You all know that if number 2,000 happens today, the ratification of the new Iraqi Constitution will get a small paragraph on page A22 while "NUMBER 2,000" will get 48 point type on page one.
The msm is so vile, that no matter how hard I try, I can't think of all the things that they deserve.
Actually, the vote was much closer than that. If you consider that two Sunni provinces clearly voted no, it would've only taken one more province to vote no to defeat the constitution, regardless of the majority outcome in the other provinces.
It is also key to note that the UN group that looked into the votes in Nineveh province where the tally was 55% against decided that there wasn't evidence of enough fraud to change the outcome. To me this indicates that there was enough fraud to make the outcome close. In all likelihood the against vote was closer to 33%, but ballot stuffing resulted in 55% against instead.
I'm just happy the document passed, because the failure of the document in three provinces while passing with an otherwise 4-1 majority would've probably have spelled out civil war, especially if vote tampering could be proven in that one province. It wouldn't have been a very big civil war though, because frankly - I think a large number of Sunnis side with the Shia on the issue of the Constitution, and I'm suspicious of the results from the other two Sunni provinces.