Iraqi Elections: Mood in Baghdad, Erbil
A Kurdish boy waves the flag of Iraqi Kurdistan outside a polling station in the northern city of Erbil. Ivan Watson, NPR hide caption
Steve Inskeep talks to Jamie Tarabay in Baghdad and Ivan Watson in Erbil to get a sense of the mood in these cities and to look at voter turnout for Iraq's parliamentary elections.
In the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, the elections became a celebration of Kurdish, and not Iraqi, nationalism.