At least that's a somewhat more realistic goal! While it's hard (actually, impossible) to know exactly how many people participated in the April 15th Tea Parties, most estimates are in the low hundreds of thousands. Bear in mind that this was an event for which almost no one had to leave their home town. It's much harder to get large numbers of people to travel thousands of miles to protest. Also, bear in mind that unlike left-wingers, conservatives generally don't consider going to a protest to be a recreational activity.
I will be very surprised if the total crowd is in the neighborhood of one million. Let's hope I'm wrong...
Nonsense! I don't know where you got your information, but our own "Henchster" compiled the numbers from first hand reports and sourced reporting. His numbers can be found here!
Nationwide estimates were up to 1.2 million in attendance.
conservatives generally don't consider going to a protest to be a recreational activity
Then they damn well better make it a national emergency activity and get to DC any way they can! Enough with the excuses!
The Tea Party Movement Goes to Capitol Hill -- September 10-12, 2009