A million or more rock Washington--Taxpayer march could be biggest rally ever in capital.

WASHINGTON – The capital was rocked today by a taxpayer march and rally that could be the biggest protest ever – potentially dwarfing the Million Man March and the Promise Keepers Rally.

Though crowd estimates vary from as low as 60,000 to 70,000 according to ABC News to a high of 2 million by London Daily Mail, photographs and videos of the march and rally demonstrate its enormity.

The taxpayers stormed Washington, D.C., today, taking their fight against excessive spending, bailouts, growth of big government and soaring deficits to the front door of the U.S. Capitol.

All week citizens have been heading to the Hill by the busloads for the showdown today. The Tea Party Patriots' "Tea Party Express" national bus tour has been hosting a series of tea party rallies all across the nation. A caravan of buses, speakers and entertainers arrived in Washington, D.C., just in time for the march. The taxpayers have paid their own way to the event.

The White House said Friday it was unaware of the rally. President Obama has traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., to promote his health-care plans at a rally there.

But so many taxpayers showed up on Pennsylvania Avenue that the crowd ran out of room and the march was forced to begin early.

Please check this revised estimate for max number.

1 mile long route. Park service says 90 feet wide but I’m sticking with 75 feet wide because of cars on the sides, and my experience (I walked on the far right side with room between myself and the curb.)

I’m also going to stay with the 30” by 30” density. That’s 6.5 square feet. Supposedly people in an elevator can get by with 2.5 sq feet, but 6 sq feet is commonly used for marches.

I originally said a 20 minute walk, google says 25 minutes so I will use that. The march lasted three hours, from 10:00 to 1:00 solid (of course there were some stragglers, but the majority took Pennsylvania in that time period.)

We have 5280 feet times 75 feet= 396,000 square feet.

396,000/6.5= 60,923 per pass.

180 minutes/25 minutes = 7.2 passes

7.2 times 60,923 = 438,646 people by this method.

Thank you all for your help!

In my case I want to be accurate. I don't believe a damn thing I see in the media because of things like this where they obviously twist and bend and obfuscate things that are inconvenient to them, while puffing up and glorifying that which they favor. All of the time. All I am willing to believe is what I see, and what there's hard evidence for.

The evidence I saw with my eyes on the Mall and around the Capitol pool indicated a couple hundred thousand, minimum. I wasn't in the Pennsylvania Ave march, so a lot depends on whether those folks at the Capitol were the same folks that marched, or whether the march was still on. My time at the pool occurred around noonish, and it was already shoulder-to-shoulder and very difficult to make headway.

There were significant numbers of marchers that were exiting the Capitol area at that time, as well as people still arriving from the Mall side.

The grass area of the Mall which was available - between 3rd and 4th - wasn't unpopulated, but wasn't shoulder-to-shoulder either. The Capitol shot toward Washington Monument doesn't make that area clearly differentiated from the blocked-off black family event which shows up on the photo as an expanse of tents and grass.

If a significant portion of the Freedom Plaza marchers were still en route, then the couple-hundred thousand minimum number can be safely revised upward, but for now, that's my personal eyeball + photographic evidence guesstimate.

Also if you notice from that chart it only allows people in the grass area which covers about 5.5 square acres (reverse there figures to get the 5.5 sq acres) There were people in this event that spilled over that chart.

But that chart is about the best we can get on the size. so if we assume the density of this event was one person per 5 sqft then this event had close to 1 million people. If someone can show the density was different i would like to hear it.

thanks

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