I saw a news story this morning that put the attendance for Sunday's events at 500,000. Has anyone else heard that as the #?
From the transcript:
SABATO: Absolutely. And it's a legitimate story to point out that this is part of this convention and the numbers are relatively large. Although 250,000 in the city size of New York, with 5 to 1 Democratic registration, with the city voting probably 65 - 70 percent better of George Bush, I don't think it's a very impressive number.
HUME: And of course, it's a number that's in some dispute. Protest organizers were saying, you know, a million, somewhere would agree to 500,000. Other estimates placed the numbers as low as 120,000. It's very difficult to tell.
The stories I saw were repeating that that # was the organizers' claim.