Sorry... I see ABC estimating the turnout at 60,000 to 70,000
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-protesters-march-washington/story?id=8557120
I do expect ABC to downplay the real numbers a bit, but they cannot gloss over 2 million by saying 60-70 thousand. I suspect 100-200 thousand is more accurate.
I’m sorry, but I’ve been to plenty of places where there were 60,000 - 70,000 people-—many college and professional football games I’ve attended had that many people. Today’s rally had at a minimum several HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. I very easily could have topped 1 million. I wouldn’t guess much over that simply because once it gets as large as it was and you’re standing in the middle of it, it’s hard to tell. To say there were only 60-70,000 people is a down right lie.
Yes, ABC and the other Alphabet stations are using the “official” figure of 60,000. That doesn’t explain the fact that they(the police)shut down roads and wouldn’t let any more people drive in because there wasn’t any more room. The official figure is BS,the on picture alone showing the crowd from the capitol to the Washington Monument has more than 60,000 people in it, hundreds of thousands is more like it. It was hard to get an exact estimate because people kept coming in for hours, but more than the one area was filled with people. I know there had to be at least 200,000 and very possibly several times that. I like the 1.2 million estimate that the police gave at first and then later clammed up about it.
ABC is full of bullplop. Some of the tea parties in the hinterlands have had 70K attendees.
This was the mother of all tea parties, and people all over the country have been planning for it for months.
Baloney.