[SeattleBruce]

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?

[oldbill]

No, because there is no valid way to estimate how many people were in the treed areas off to the sides of the lawn (but not that many) or how many were just sightseeing around the museums west of the Mall because they got at the end of the march and couldn't get closer.

I wouldn't make any estimate therefore.

Here is a more important factor than the size of the crowd. Nobody thought of providing portajohns. Those 200,000 marched and assembeled from 9 AM until 2 PM without any portajohns.
That's dedication and commitment!!!!!