Celebrating the 9/12 rallies-TURNOUT EST RANGE FROM 350K (liberal) TO 2 MILLION (conservative)

ABC News ^ | September 12, 2009 | Michelle Malkin

[calex59]

Yes, ABC and the other Alphabet stations are using the “official” figure of 60,000. That doesn’t explain the fact that they(the police)shut down roads and wouldn’t let any more people drive in because there wasn’t any more room. The official figure is BS,the on picture alone showing the crowd from the capitol to the Washington Monument has more than 60,000 people in it, hundreds of thousands is more like it. It was hard to get an exact estimate because people kept coming in for hours, but more than the one area was filled with people. I know there had to be at least 200,000 and very possibly several times that. I like the 1.2 million estimate that the police gave at first and then later clammed up about it.

[aft_lizard]

There might be some satellite footage that could be acquired. I am sure there is always a satellite over D.C. taking pictures.

[jennyjenny]

Several hundred thousand. The “march” photo is the best one I've seen, and even that one doesn't show the full length of the people marching. Once you get to the Capitol, people were spilling over into other areas because there was another event going on, on the mall. Even with that, people were taking up some space on the mall, just not where the other group had their tents, etc. You can't compare Obama’s inauguration photo of the mall to today's rally simply because we weren't able to take up all of the mall area. There were people behind, to the side of the Capitol building due to lack of space that I haven't seen in a photo as yet. I see no benefit whatsoever to exaggerate the numbers. All I can do is give you my best estimate and having been in several venues where 60-70,000 were in attendance, I feel more than confident in saying that is no where close to the number of people there.

[MonicaG]

Awesome - thanks so much for your report and for being there. I couldn’t go but was praying for you guys while I helped a friend who lost his house move some stuff.

[patlin]

Earlier in the day, ABC was reporting 1.2 million per DC police reports.

After reading the article, I see why they went more conservative, they have to down-play it because their Messiah only drew a few thousand in the Twin Cities in MN.

The reason...they were in DC! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[calex59]

Really, well that is amazing since that was the shot C-Span had on their live feed as well as CNN and Fox.

Damn troll.

[SeattleBruce]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.rally/index.html

CNN Aerial shot - look at #3. I’m still trying to get accurate estimates from good sources. Has anyone else found any other good numbers/pictures?

[ak267]

Did anyone screen capture that earlier ABC News report?

[browardchad]

Next time shut your mouth before you look like an idiot.

Too late for that. It's a done deal.

[patlin]

post cam shots of 9-12-09 compared to 1-20-09

http://constitutionallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/conservative-patriots-v-government-trough-feeders/

[SeattleBruce]

I’m still trying to get accurate estimates from good sources.
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People on this string that attended are saying Hundreds of Thousands to 1 million+. So the estimates I’ve seen range greatly, but way more than ABC, Fox or CNN ridiculous non-estimate, and talking about how 2,000 protestors had shown up on July 4th. Really CNN? REALLY?

[SeattleBruce]

Earlier in the day, ABC was reporting 1.2 million per DC police reports.
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I heard ABC Radio also said 2 million estimated. Yes, did anyone screen capture that?

Also, does anyone have the DC Police link?

[KansasGirl]

Some pretty impressive shots in post 2124.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2337946/posts?q=1&;page=2101

[Judith Anne]

I am quite certain that there were over a million, maybe closer to two.

And I am absolutely certain that no matter how the numbers are spun, or lied about, or fudged, or minimized by the Democraps, they are absolutely all terrified. They know what the real numbers were, and they know what the real numbers mean: it means that their DAYS are numbered.

Anybody who would go to the trouble of getting into that demonstration today is going to be an activist, a voter, and voting against Washington’s disgusting, corrupt, communist manipulation. And for everyone that was there, there were 5 who wanted to be, who couldn’t. And all of us feel the same way. AND WE VOTE!

Zero’s going to get his change all right. Americans are going to take their country back, and he and his gangsters don’t have much chance of keeping their jobs.

[Freedom2specul8]

Why did they close bridges and streets..one of the reports said buses were turned away because of the size of the crowd. How large would the crowd have to be before they turn away people and close streets?

[SeattleBruce]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/12/AR2009091200971_pf.html

“Tens of thousands of conservative protesters crowded outside the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, a massive demonstration aimed at stopping what organizers called the over-expansion of the federal government under the Obama administration.”
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Tens of thousands - yeah, like maybe 100 ten thousands (=1 millions?)

[charmedone]

The “other” group drew 1,940,000 and ours numbered 60,000. Ya, that’s the ticket!

[Grunthor]

“Celebrating the 9/12 rallies; Update: TURNOUT ESTIMATES RANGE FROM 350K TO 2 MILLION”

Lets’ just call it “a lot” and be happy. I was expecting no more than 75,000.

[OwenKellogg]

There were several hundred thousand there -- no way I can guess for sure. I was fortunate to see our leader there:

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Are these crowd estimates from Obama’s economic advisors?