Comments on: Rally to Restore Sanity Crowd Estimate for Attendance Numbers Too Low?

By: bouttime

bouttime — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:51:00 +0000

I was there. Given your reply, no way you were there. lol

“Your Quote”
“Packed to capitol to castle, yes, monument…not so much.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:12:00 +0000

Exactly which images did you photoshop to arrive at this conclusion?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:07:00 +0000

Sorry conservatives. Whine all you want. Your “protests” just didn’t cut it by the numbers. Truth can be very painful. Have abother drink.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:07:00 +0000

Sorry conservatives. Whine all you want. Your “protests” just didn’t cut it by the numbers. Truth can be very painful. Have abother drink.

By: Mandy Foote

Mandy Foote — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:03:00 +0000

The numbers are definately low. They also don’t take into account the people who were perched on buildings, in trees, and all along side streets in huge numbers. I was there and I really don’t think 150,000 is correct. It also doesn’t take into account all the people who came late and got turned away because there was no room. That happened a lot.

By: Rose Lowry

Rose Lowry — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:50:00 +0000

I heard a news report from the local Fox station. They said, “thousands and thousands” lol. They reported that the Saturday Metro averages 180,000 riders by 3pm. On the day of the Rally, there were 400,000 riders by 3pm. So, roughly 220,000 attendees via the Metro. Now. Add buses, cars, locals, people who stayed in town and didn’t take the Metro. We ended up driving in because we would have missed the event because the Metro was so swamped. ie, a LOT of people got there besides taking the metro. I was at 4th and Jefferson. The sardine-packed crowd filled every crevice on all sides of the mall, it looked like all the way back to the Washington. AMAZING!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:55:00 +0000

Yawn. Boring. “My party was more fabulous then yours!” More people went to college football games yesterday and they at least got a buzz. The real proof will come Tuesday.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:05:00 +0000

That is incorrect. NBC news has this rally in the “tens of thousands”. They have the Beck rally at 300,000. There were at least twice as many people at the Beck rally than at the Comedy Central rally – probably three times as many.

By: Patrick Boatman

Patrick Boatman — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:54:00 +0000

‎”We’re not going to let anyone get away with saying there were less than six billion there yesterday!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:11:00 +0000

I have been to many rallies on the mall. There’s no way that the Rally to Restore Sanity was only 250,000. When the March for Women’s Lives was held on the mall in April 5th, 2004 it was the largest rally I had attended there to date. The organizers of that rally had volunteers collecting signatures to verify attendance and spent weeks analyzing the data to guarantee there were no duplicates. The final number counted was over 1 million. But of course the corporate media said almost nothing about it. That crowd I was in clearly wasn’t as tightly packed as the RTRS. There is no way 250,000 people tightly packed can fill most of the mall. Someone needs to call the MythBusters to bust that myth. See Jim Tarrant’s post below on the Metro numbers – “Metro recorded 350,000 trips (0n tickets/passes) going to the destination stops. On a typical Saturday, you would expect to see maybe 5% of that amount.” And that’s just the subway.