September 22, 2009

9/12: an accurate count on the real numbers

GO HERE: (thanks to LCR)http://www.scribd.com/doc/19743935/The-Real-Number-of-Protesters-Zac-Moilanen
Posted by Andrew33 on 9/22/2009



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KOOK 91p · 810 weeks ago

500k, 1 million, 1.5 million, or 1.7 Million, I dont know, I was there and I DO KNOW that it was not some piddly 60 thousand.

This is the most logical study of the numbers I have seen.
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Andrew33 103p · 810 weeks ago

There were more than 60,000 in the pre march gathering where we first hit the crowd. As I said on LCR's blog. This study does not take into account people leaving to go sightseeing or as we did to go to the Smithsonian early which despite being on way too many painkillers, I recall it being full of protestors. Similarly, the cab driver that I talked with on Sunday after you had left said that it was like that in every part of DC and He was convinced that we greatly outnumbered the "2 million" that showed up for Obama's inauguration. It doesn't matter how many over 1.5 million showed up. The proof is in the photos all over the internet and those folks aren't going away. They are increasing in numbers daily. It's a funny thing that everywhere I wear that 912 protest hat I bought at the press meeting, somebody tells me they wish they could have been there, asks questions about what it was like, etc. The funny thing about that is, I live in as "liberal" an area as you will find in any big city and the folks that often ask about the march are not "of the persuasion" that you would think. Usual readers here will know what that means. For those who don't, I am saying that many who wanted to go and march were of ethnic groups other than "white." I agree with your comment that that guess is as scientifically close as we will find, but for the reasons I stated previously, I believe the number may be somewhat higher.

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