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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
The drive-bys are going out of their way to avoid giving any figure on attendance, opting instead for the ambiguous “thousands”. Predictable.

The DC authorities don't give an official estimate of any crowd, and few media outlets are willing to go out on a limb on their own. Crowd estimates never make anyone happy, and rarely make anyone happy.

30 posted on 01/23/2008 11:04:37 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

They regularly publish the organizers’ estimates, with a disclaimer that it’s unofficial. At least when the organizer is an anti-war outfit like A.N.S.W.E.R.

Several RTL groups estimated the attendance to be around 200,000. Their estimates didn’t get a mention anywhere in the mainstream press.


34 posted on 01/23/2008 11:18:12 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (John McCain: Bush Derangement Syndrome's "Patient Zero")
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