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willbeurdaddy -> RE: 2.13 million attend Dem Rally at the National Mall (10/2/2010 5:57:50 PM)
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Not that I particularly give a fuck, but (from the same link)...
Organizers claimed they had as many participants as Beck's rally. But Saturday's crowds were less dense and didn't reach as far to the edges as they did during Beck's rally.
Funny how "organizers" always seem to have a vision problem.
It seems standard that event organizers will often over exaggerate their numbers for a variety of reasons. During the Beck rally, almost anyone with a brain understood, rally organizers, including Mr. Beck, would grossly over exaggerate the numbers. So CBS hired a third party company to take photos by air an analysis to get a better idea of the actual crowd count at its highest point. The number this third party arrived at, is the 87,000 often quoted by other sources. Since those of Mr. Beck's rally failed to provide a third/neutral party to do a proper accounting, it stands to reason, the 87,000 number is much more accurate figure, based on evidence.
Having seen photographs of the National Mall, with different numbers of crowds for events over the years, its rather easy to tell the difference (with reference material handy) to the size of a crowd. Mr. Beck's rally was no where near 200K, let alone the 400-500K he announced. And not in the same galaxy when compared to Sen. Michelle Bachmann's number of 1.5 million.
That said, I'm surprised CBS did not hire the same or similar company to do a few shots by air of the crowd size this time around. Maybe they have, and I have not seen the info just yet. Still, this rally was planned for weeks in advance (and before the Beck Rally was announced). Why didn't the GOP make a similar effort to give an accurate estimate to the crowd?
Because they dont give a fuck how many people showed up at this or the Beck rally?
Ok....
Replace 'GOP' with the more broad group known as 'conservatives'. If you, as a conservative, are going to say this group's numbers are incorrect, it stands to reason you have a much more accurate number? If so, what is it, and can you provide the evidence that backs up your statement?
For hypothetical sake, lets just consider the rally was twice the size of Beck's rally (174K). And for the sake of this arguement, we arrive to the arguement that the number, based on what ever evidence is 'on the table', is this '174K' number. What do we, as US Citizens take from this information? Being neutral about it, I guess, it would depend on people's disposition towards the Democratic Party right now, right?
You make the mistake of thinking that I or conservatives in general give a fuck how many people there were. I simply made a statement of my observation from pictures in response to an ironic OP.
I AM quite interested in how many show up for Jon Stewart's event. That will be a gauge of just how stupid the American public actually has become. We already knew that about the Dems in Congress before they brought Colbert in, but I still hold out some hope that the scum rose to the top.
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