Did anyone ever get an actual count of the crowd as I note you said 1.8 million. My friend that went said it was at two million. I do know some of the groups asked people to text to try to get a better idea of the number present.
“Did anyone ever get an actual count of the crowd as I note you said 1.8 million. My friend that went said it was at two million. I do know some of the groups asked people to text to try to get a better idea of the number present.”
The best study done by anybody that I’ve seen was done by Zac Moilanen of Indiana University. You can read and download it here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19743935/The-Real-Number-of-Protesters-Zac-Moilanen
Also, here’s the best panoramic picture of the event, taken by a photographer for Fredomworks.com from the Capitol dome:
http://www.freedomworks.org/node/20204
It pretty well corroborates the Molianen article, which makes an estimate of about 1,780,000.