[starbase]

My guess is 35,000 with 8,000 illegals.

I totally agree. I don't know any downtown spot that would accommodate 100,000 and I haven't seen pictures to indicate that many either. Sounds like major ca ca.

I also know that Numbers USA supporters have sent 75,000 faxes to congress in the last three days, and that's par for the course. So unless these people can show a true rally of 100,000, and unless they can do it in at least 10 other cities, then I think this will just remain an inflated stunt, outweighed by all our other work going on towards immigration enforcement. (PS the Mexican flags probably hurt their argument immeasurably)

[Outland]

[formerly liberal]

The only people I noticed were legal and illegal Mexicans carrying huge flags, teenage college kids and a lot of 20 somethings who call themselves "activists". Having worked in downtown Chicago over the past 26 years, the only thing that I noticed on the way home, were Mexican flags, the police presence and the fact that traffic was very screwed up for a Friday afternoon. At that time of day, people just want to go home. I'm sure that all this signified to the rest of the commuters was a major nuisance. They (myself included) didn't feel the urge to stop and listen to this rally. There may have been about 30,000, but definitely not 100,000.

Since most people can't drive in downtown Chicago, a drop of rain will tie up traffic immensely. This played right into the hands of the media. Thus they used the traffic situation to exaggerate the significance of the rally on the news.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Grant Park will accommodate that number and more but there has been no claim that this occurred in Grant Park.

The important question here is: will the Treason Media exaggerate or deprecate the number here?