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ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size
ABC news ^ | 9/12/2009

Posted on 09/13/2009 5:37:18 AM PDT by GVnana

ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size

ABC News Reported D.C. Rally Size in Tens of Thousands, Not 1M to 1.5M as Activist Said.

Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration's health care agenda and government spending, erroneously attributed reports on the size of the crowds to ABC News.

Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.

At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large.

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TOPICS: Extended News; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 912project; abcnews; misquotes; teaparty
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To: Faith-Hope
Fox reported sixty thousand. I don’t know if they retracted that count later as I had to leave.

That's probably the "official" AP number, parroted by most of the MSM. Fox didn't have enough troops on the ground to get a more accurate count so they leaned on the Anti-American Press for their number.

121 posted on 09/14/2009 3:35:10 AM PDT by meyer (Do not go gentle into that good night - Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: iceskater
I was really expecting ACORN and SEIU thugs to show up in force.

I think that their numbers are far, far smaller than they'd like us to think. They only show up when they can hire 2 busloads of thugs to attack a lone elderly woman. Any odds worse than that, and they're a no-show.

122 posted on 09/14/2009 3:46:22 AM PDT by meyer (Do not go gentle into that good night - Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: iceskater
>>>I was really expecting ACORN and SEIU thugs to show up in force.<<<
—Problem is that you have to pay them Overtime on weekends.
123 posted on 09/14/2009 3:51:46 AM PDT by Shqipo (A whiff of blowback is in the air.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

Of COURSE I was there! Why don’t all you cell phone people use your dang cell phones and call each other. You coulda hooked up with us. We were over by the 3rd St and Madison intersection.


124 posted on 09/14/2009 4:17:12 AM PDT by BufordP ("I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market ..." --George "Hoover" Bush)
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To: wbones8765
I have read estimates from different websites. From tens of thousands to 2.2 million. I wish we had an actual headcount.

The main thing is that the Unibama and his czars know the real number and are scared.

125 posted on 09/14/2009 5:35:30 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks Right-Wing.)
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To: Shqipo

LOL! I think you’re right.


126 posted on 09/14/2009 6:39:48 AM PDT by iceskater (The "public option" in government run health care means no option at all.)
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To: BufordP

The Park Police estimate, based on 1 person for every 2.6 square feet would give way too high a number. That kind of density would be equivalent to a formation of troops in close order; shoulder to shoulder and belly to backbone. You might find that density in the immediate vacinity of the speakers’ podium. Otherwise, a density of one person for every 10 square feet to 36 square feet is more realistic for an outdoor crowd in warm weather. So if they estimate c. 1.2 million for a crowd that fills the Mall from the Capitol to the Washinton Monument, it would probably be closer to 90,000 to 300,000 - still a substantial number of people.

Another way to estimate the size of the crowd would be to find out how many people it would take to fill Pennsylvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza to the Capitol, and how long it would take for a person in such a crowd to walk from Freedom Plaza to the Capitol. We know it took about 3 hours for the morning crowd to march down PA Ave. Divide 3 hours by the time it takes to walk the distance, and multiply the number of people that would fill the space by the quotient and you get a rough estimate of the numbers that made the march.

Or...find out how many people rode the Metro into Washington in the morning and out of Washinton in the late afternoon. True, not all of them would have been going to the rally, but also not everyone who went to the Rally took the Metro. Compare that number to the same figures for a normal Saturday, when there is no big event going on, and you will get a rough estimate of the attendance.

VietVet (who studied Social Psychology back in the day, and estimating crowd sizes was part of the curriculum)


127 posted on 09/16/2009 5:08:32 AM PDT by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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