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From: Jeff Strickland on 12 Sep 2009 21:08 "matrixxxx09" <matrixxxx09(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:0c09ab9d-34d1-4486-8bab-d6bc8dc8555e(a)r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com... On Sep 12, 8:45� pm, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlrj...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > "matrixxx09" <matrixx...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:5459c53f-9c3e-44b7-b492-492e8849c2f3(a)o21g2000vbl.googlegroups.com... > On Sep 12, 6:53 pm, Conscience <nobama@göv.com> wrote: > > > On 2009-09-12 15:08:27 -0700, Hachiroku ムムãƒã‚¯ > > <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> > > said: > > > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/tea-party > > > As opposed to the first, which had nothing close to 200,000? > > You sure about that? � Or do you just want that to be true and so, to > you, it is? > > <JS> > The Million Man March with Louis Farrakahn leading was well short of a > million men. Well short. I don't recall the number, but 200k to 250k > sounds > about right. > > </JS> I'm getting some discrepant numbers here. We went from 'nothing close to 200K' from C., then waaaay up to 650,000 from C, and now we're back down to 200-250K from Jeff. C, what was the computer-scanned thing that you got the 650K figure from? Did it sound definitive? <JS> Speaking of the 2005 rally, <quote> Neither Farrakhan, who spoke for 75 minutes, nor police would offer a crowd estimate. Associated Press photos showed the gathering was significantly smaller than that of 1995, when Boston University researchers estimated between 600,000 and 1 million participants. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said subway ridership by 7 p.m. was just under 368,000, compared with a Saturday average of nearly 220,000. </quote> I can't say that Metro Transit or Boston U would have an agenda, but of the two, I'd give the edge in agenda-based estimating to Boston U. Nobody (that I have found) gives crowd estimates of the 1995 crowd, but it seems that the 2005 crowd was smaller. </JS>
From: matrixxxx09 on 12 Sep 2009 21:12
On Sep 12, 9:09 pm, Conscience <nobama@göv.com> wrote: > On 2009-09-12 17:45:00 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlrj...(a)yahoo.com> said: > > > > > The Million Man March with Louis Farrakahn leading was well short of a > > million men. Well short. I don't recall the number, but 200k to 250k sounds > > about right. > > Initial reports were right there. Later computer photo scans were > allegedly done with a number around 650K. This was in dispute by > hand-counters, and most certainly by organizers some of whom claimed > two million. > > Still amazing that this many people were given time off of work to attend.. More than that get off when a bad snowstorm blows through. So it's no biggie to have a march once per decade or so. |