Posted on 09/12/2009 2:21:15 PM PDT by Zakeet
Edited on 09/12/2009 4:03:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Huge crowd, yes. But not two million. Even DeMint has now changed his first boast on this. Malkin is wrong because the police do not give estimates.
We were there and have seen a lot of crowds on the mall for inaugurations, July 4th festivities, marches, etc. Two million would not fit on the Mall in its two mile stretch.
Best estimate from experience? - 200,000 plus. For those familiar with the Capital and the Mall, the crowd filled the Capital west lawn, the area around the Grant reflecting pool, and west to Fourth street. It started encroaching on another group’s permit west of the Grant statue. It could be another 100,000 to 200,000 because they were forced to spread out along the sides of the rally because of the permit limits and the loudspeakers’ range.
It was a very large crowd, far beyond expectations, but too many groups inflate the numbers (mostly libs). It was NOT “tens of thousands” as the CNN NBC crowd are trying to say, but more like hundreds of thousands. BTW, the DC or Park Police do NOT make estimates, so anyone saying so is wrong.
Not bad for a rally organized by amateurs with no coordinating megalith like unions or the NAACP. Just real people. Almost ALL of the thousands of signs were handmade, not the fancy pre-printed ones handed out by liberal groups like MoveOn and SEIU.
I posted this on earlier threads. Now reports coming out are backing up my estimate. 200,000 (up to 400,000 because many were off to the side in the nether reaches of the Capitol lawn) is a HUGE number - four full Yankee Stadiums. Let’s not get carried away with the 2 million claim and give the left an opportunity to refute everything else.
And it was true grass roots. Almost ALL the signs were handmade, not the product of SEIU and DNC printing presses that characterize liberal rallies.
JIM THOMPSON! hehehe! ;)
God Bless you Jim, wish I could have been there to give you and your wife a hug.
The DC police stopped giving crowd size some years back because of all the flak they got, so I don't know why they would give numbers today. I think someone out there is just making this stuff up. Dems, probably.
OBAMA:
DON’T TAX ME, BRO!!!
Oh yes. He flew over in the Marine helicopter to sneak a look.
I have worked up there. No matter what the commies over at CNN say, the crowd was at least 1.5 million people; all well behaved Americans of diverse age, gender and origin.
I was so proud to be a FREEPER; It brought tears to the eyes to see so many condemn what this Presidential pretender is doing to America.
Politicians better carefully assess what they are dealing with. Voters are really angry and it will play out at the 2010 elections.
Are you going to come back on this thread and defend your statement?
Haven’t seen a protest like this since Nam.
EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT CODE PINK!!!!
It was close to 1.5 million according to one of the organizers speaking from the podium today. It was a local ABC outlet that put the numbers at 2 million....not the ABC evening news. The locals know how many people were there. It had to be very close to a million at least!
“I’m still trying to get accurate estimates from good sources.”
That’s me. See Post 99.
Trust me. I’ve been to dozens of these things over 30 years. This was a huge crowd, considering that a lot of other things are going on in Washington, compared to an Inauguration, when it’s the only thing going on and it’s a holiday. This crowd ended about Fourth St. The Mall goes to 24th St. On the 4th of July the fireworks fills up most of the Mall with 500,000 to 700,000 people, spaced out somewhat with chairs and blankets.
There were a lot of other Tea Party visitors in town who gave up because they were too far to hear anything, and just went sightseeing after the parade part. But at any one time the visual crowd was about 200,000, plus some more spread out N and S of the lawn because of other prmits west of Fourth St.
***The line of protesters completely filled Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.***
1.2 million is a very good estimate.
Maceman’s been around since 1998 - what is that ‘sleeper cell’ troll? :)
In any case there are many confirmations of the shot you said was ‘not from today.’ So Maceman, what do you have to say for yourself?
That’s what I heard too..
LMAOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
They did not close any bridges.
They closed streets around the west side of the Capitol because of the large number of people who were blocking streets - a normal safety measure. Seventh St across the Mall was open to traffic, as were Constitution and Pennsylvania Aves after the crowd marched by.
I’d guess the “other group” had 2-300 hundred, tops.
There were a lot of other Tea Party visitors in town who gave up because they were too far to hear anything, and just went sightseeing after the parade part. But at any one time the visual crowd was about 200,000, plus some more spread out N and S of the lawn because of other prmits west of Fourth St.
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I see, so you’d put the assembled crowd at 300 to 350K? Or more? Plus many others in town that couldn’t get over there? So 500,000 tea partiers - would you say?
Kind of strange...I haven’t seen any overhead/helicopter shots...I’d really like to see one!
Hank
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