[GeronL]

There were tea parties in small towns all over America.... whats more amazing are the papers that didn’t give them front page coverage

[Kansas58]

Clearly, Rush is trying not to overstate the numbers.

I do think that his estimate is low, because I know of Tea Parties in Kansas that are not on the “official list”.

[Kansas58]

I also appreciate it that Rush is stating, clearly, that starting a “3rd Party” would be stupid, and only serve to elect more Democrats.

[TheBattman]

That is the point - while many of the bigger gatherings saw 1000-2000, many of the 800 or so “TEA Parties” were held in smaller towns with much smaller attendance. 50 at one that I know of, 200 at another, and so on.

And because this was a very loose-knit “event”, there really is no way of getting an accurate count nationwide.

I do know that the main event in Little Rock had about 2000 in attendance (at the peak), yet local media reporting “hundreds”.