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rulemylife -> 2.13 million attend Dem Rally at the National Mall (10/2/2010 2:04:09 PM)
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Yes you heard that right, the National Park Service estimated the crowd at 2.13 million.
Now I know they don't put out official crowd estimates anymore, but my neighbor Stella's third ex-husband's first wife has a friend whose second cousin on her mother's side works as a landscaper for the NPS in DC and that was how many people he thought were there.
And he did really well in math when he was in school.
So there you have it, an expert estimate of the crowd size by an official of the National Park Service.
Don't pay any attention to the headline. CBS is just a little confused as usual. I mean they said there were only 87,000 people at Beck's rally but Beck was far more accurate with his estimate of 500,000. Then Michele Bachmann pegged the true number at 1.6 million.
So I'm sticking with the inside information I was lucky enough to hear about.
Thousands Gather in D.C. to Support Dems' Agenda - CBS News
Tapping into the same anger that fuels the Tea Party movement, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.
"We are together. This march is about the power to the people," said MSNBC host Ed Schultz. "It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?"
In a fiery speech that opened the "One Nation Working Together" rally on the National Mall, Schultz blamed Republicans for shipping jobs overseas and curtailing freedoms. He borrowed some of conservative commentator Glenn Beck's rhetoric and promised to "take back our country."
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