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From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 14 Sep 2009 00:39 On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:41:26 +0000, House Negro wrote: The mainstream media were predicting that a few thousand people attended the 9/12 tea party in Washington, D.C., protesting runaway government spending, deficits, and taxation. Organizers would have been extremely pleased with 30,000. How many showed up? According to the London Daily Mail, a miilion people attended the tea-party rally. But other media sources such as the Associated Press put the number at tens of thousands. Your correspondent's napkin math would suggest more like 300,000 based on YouTube time lapse photos showing throngs of 20 to 25 abreast streaming from Freedom Square to the Capitol from 8 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. |