Posted on 09/12/2009 2:21:15 PM PDT by Zakeet
Edited on 09/12/2009 4:03:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Huge crowd, yes. But not two million. Even DeMint has now changed his first boast on this. Malkin is wrong because the police do not give estimates.
We were there and have seen a lot of crowds on the mall for inaugurations, July 4th festivities, marches, etc. Two million would not fit on the Mall in its two mile stretch.
Best estimate from experience? - 200,000 plus. For those familiar with the Capital and the Mall, the crowd filled the Capital west lawn, the area around the Grant reflecting pool, and west to Fourth street. It started encroaching on another group’s permit west of the Grant statue. It could be another 100,000 to 200,000 because they were forced to spread out along the sides of the rally because of the permit limits and the loudspeakers’ range.
It was a very large crowd, far beyond expectations, but too many groups inflate the numbers (mostly libs). It was NOT “tens of thousands” as the CNN NBC crowd are trying to say, but more like hundreds of thousands. BTW, the DC or Park Police do NOT make estimates, so anyone saying so is wrong.
Not bad for a rally organized by amateurs with no coordinating megalith like unions or the NAACP. Just real people. Almost ALL of the thousands of signs were handmade, not the fancy pre-printed ones handed out by liberal groups like MoveOn and SEIU.
I posted this on earlier threads. Now reports coming out are backing up my estimate. 200,000 (up to 400,000 because many were off to the side in the nether reaches of the Capitol lawn) is a HUGE number - four full Yankee Stadiums. Let’s not get carried away with the 2 million claim and give the left an opportunity to refute everything else.
And it was true grass roots. Almost ALL the signs were handmade, not the product of SEIU and DNC printing presses that characterize liberal rallies.
Are you saying there were less than 50-60K or more?
I get confused easily, LOL!
prisoner6
I’m calling the crowd HUGE and MASSIVE and AWESOME! HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS!
Nah, the First Sycophant and the cadre of enablers probably have the blinds drawn, reruns of NCAA on the First Plasma, and coo soothingly to The One hourly about how revered he is in flyover country.
Lucky! You got to meet jim thompson!
Clever, and a good summary of the State Run Media. (SRM)
Thanks KG - here’s the specific link. Very impressive turnout and crowd! Congrats ALL!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2337946/posts?page=2124#2124
Laughing out loud!! That’s funny!
I wouldn't make any estimate therefore.
Here is a more important factor than the size of the crowd. Nobody thought of providing portajohns. Those 200,000 marched and assembeled from 9 AM until 2 PM without any portajohns.
That's dedication and commitment!!!!!
Did you read the first line of my post? I said several hundred thousand. It would be impossible to be less than 50-60K by several hundred thousand.
Love the graphic
Okay, have they ever had to close streets before, and how many people would have to attend for them to make that decision?
The Pubbies better have very alert observers at polling places and an extremely well coordinated force of lawyers so large they blacken the sky like IBM's Nazgul of old. Dem's know everything they're shoving through is not what the large majority of people want, and I'm sure they're counting on election fraud to pull their gonads from the fire.
He spoke today in front of a room full of invited and screened guests and answered some pre-programmed questions in Minnesota. Running up another $300,000 Ego-Force One bill for us to have to pay.
Yes, they close streets for a lot of thinks - farmer’s tractor protests, festivals, whatever. It’s no different than the cops in your town closing streets when the high school football game is being payed and the crowd is assembling. You don’t want cars trying to snake through hundreds of people. You divert them down the street.
In Washington, you also block streets just to keep people at these events from parking there.
Not a troll, just someone speaking stupidly and publicly before they think, I'd say.
Probably best to let it rest.
I moved your post (#99) to the main body. Hope you don’t mind.
The creativity of the signs, costumes and slogans was wonderful, and we had a lot of laughs.
My estimate on the crowd? Approaching 200,000. On our metro train alone there were over 1000 marchers, so the reports that put it at 60,000 are extremely unlikely. Say there were 8 trains coming into DC every 12 minutes, that would make 80,000 people arriving over two hours on the metro alone.
Add to that the number who drove (parking looked awful) and the number who came on busses (everywhere) and the number was very impressive indeed.
The crowd filled Pennsylvania avenue all the way from the White House to the Capitol Building. It filled the front lawn of the Capitol all the way back to 4th Street.
The best moment (for us) was this: We were on our way over to Union Station and came across a CBS reporter setting up to do a report in the middle of the street. Protesters dutifully lined up behind him to show their signs. Then he and his camera man swung around so we weren't in the shot. So we followed. He swung around again. So we followed! We ended up shouting, "CBS SUCKS, CBS SUCKS, CBS SUCKS," and he and his cameraman gave up in disgust, got in their SUV and left.
That guy was not going to turn in a report with protesters in the background no matter what. Maybe it was against his orders? Also, his bottled tan was atrocious. He looked like John Boehner.
If the jerks on Capitol Hill and in the media didn't hear us this time, there's no chance of resolving the situation. I can't imagine a more articulate display of the taxpayer's rage.
Since everyone is in guessing mode.....the 1.2-2 mill estimate are from tweets....I have yet to see one report from ABC saying the crowd was over "thousands". We are seeing the same BS posted over and over from some tweet head.
My personal opinion, 200,000 to 300,000. Those are jaw dropping numbers and nothing to be ashamed of. The 912 march was a success beyond any organizers wildest dreams, well done all....!
Based on the time lapse I’d guess several hundred thousand. Probably not a million though.
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