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Rally For Sanity Attendance Estimates A Day Later Shows Crowd over 215,000

Posted by Brian Krassenstein on Oct 31st, 2010 and filed under Featured News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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Rally For Sanity Attendance Estimated over 215,000

The Rally for Sanity, put on by Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, impressed politicians and comedians alike yesterday in several ways. First indications showed an attendance at the rally exceeding 150,000 people, but as those numbers were reported, both people at the event, as well as those familiar with the crowd capacities at the National Mall in Washington DC, indicated that those estimates were much too low.

If you recall, just over 2 months ago, Glenn Beck held his own rally at the same location. That rally drew about 87,000 people, and was promoted substantially by Beck, as well as Tea Party Republicans. The Rally for Sanity, however looks like it may have exceeded those numbers of the Beck rally by quite a large margin. The Parks service indicated that over 200,000 people were there, while CBS news said an attendance of 215,000 was closer to the actual crowd numbers at the Mall.

Overall the rally was a gigantic success for the comedians, Comedy Central, and all those involved. The numbers had to have exceeded the expectation of all those who took part. Tweets from people on the ground in Washington during the event indicated that a crowd like that was not seen since the Barack Obama inauguration about 15 months ago. Either way, this event has certainly set a precedent, attendance wise, for any other rally that takes place at the National Mall, from here on out.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/gerry.segal Gerry Segal

    IT WAS GOOD TO SEE THE RALLY BUT IT DIDN’T COME CLOSE TO AUGUST 1963.
    LESS THAN ONE WEEK TO GO!

    I went to the 1963 March on Washington. When I saw the last summers “Restoring Honor” gathering abusing the memory of Martin Luther King I wrote the song “Bus Ride To Washington” You can view it by following this address. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_slIO8CxDw

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EW6TH3TXSRKJVMUEYCFLLHFT7Y crazyj

    87,000 at Beck!! You are an outrageous liar. All credible sources had the number at around 250,000. I was there and counted them all. Typical move by the lefty liars!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1436370143 Peggy Keller

    Beck may have had 250,000 but the same company (not cbs)which said Stewart had 215,000 used the same methodology to come up with that 87,000 number. So all it really means is that Stewart had 2.5 times as many as Beck

  • Anonymous

    No one is factoring in the number of people attending the satellite rallies and I doubt that gets done.

    I think we need to consider an annual Sanity Day wherein the media receives report cards from the public!

  • Anonymous

    No one is factoring in the number of people attending the satellite rallies and I doubt that gets done.

    I think we need to consider an annual Sanity Day wherein the media receives report cards from the public!

  • Misty Jean Moore

    Look at the comparisons crazy!
    http://i.imgur.com/AoxXh.jpg

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