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The fuzzy math belongs to Hume (or whoever wrote the copy).

"Two hundred seventy seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that, statistically speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate California has more than 2,300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means they're incurring about 1.7 deaths, including illness and accidents, each day."

As Franken says, there are 34 million people in California. There are more than 2,300 homicides each year in California, 6.6 a day. It comes out to about 1 homicide for every 15,000 citizens. There are 140,000 troops in Iraq. 277 have died. They've been there for 160 days. That comes out to about 1 death for every 250 troops.