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Aggregate in a 24 hour period. Tea party attendance >> Obama attendance
This is about as meaningless as you can get. Are you really proposing this in all seriousness?
Obama never attempted this. That's like saying teabaggers got more people than Obama if you just count GOP members. Or old, straight, white people. What possible sense does your comparison make at all?
And in the only national gathering attempted by Obama - he did kick your side's butt.
in our little town of vero beach (population about 18,000) we had about 3,500 people show up today on a work day. that is a pretty good turnout and it really was a wonderful rally. there will be a party in melbourne florida on april 19 so i encourage everyone to participate. we can unite and change the course of our country! we don't have to be saddled with irresponsible debt forever.
Longview, Texas about 1,000
Tyler, Texas about 1,400
Boise, Idaho - 2500
Morristown, NJ ... 1500 (at 12:30 PM)
Denver, Co. police say 5-6000
About a 1000 in Austin Texas (http://www.takebackusa.com/photo?page=2 - broken link)
3,000 AT HARRISBURG, PA
Atlanta one source said 9000-12000, another said 13000......(both Fox Network channels, but not FoxNews) (they had Sean Hannity doing his show...)
In Hartford, Conn., police estimated 3,000 people showed up at the state Capitol, where nearly two decades earlier an estimated 40,000 had converged in protest after the state enacted its personal income tax.
Last edited by plannine; 04-15-2009 at 08:06 PM..
Reason: left the 1 out of 13000
300,000,000 Americans, and a few thousand (at most) protest? BFD! Denver got about a thousand, on a bright, sunshiny day. The Broncos can get 76,000 in bitter cold and snow!
Yes but there were 1 MILLION tea bags collected from just "one" org.
Two years ago I helped organize an anti-Bush-War protest in my very red town in my very red state. We got 150 people to protest on January 5 in 5-degree weather. For my town, that works out to about 0.3% of the population.
Imagine if a nationwide protest got the same attendance. That would be about 750,000 people. (And remember, that is using a very conservative-biased percentage, and without having the benefit of two news networks cheerleading and encouraging participation, no help from any national party, no support and logistics help from professional astroturf organizations, and no celebrity attendance, and worse weather conditions.)
Now, if there were, say, 500 tea parties around the country (an overestimate, I believe), and they had an average of 1000 attendees (also incredibly generous) - that means only 500,000 attendees. After all the help from Fox and lobbyists and celebrities.
If that's the case, then the Tea Parties would have to be considered a colossal failure. They would be much, much smaller than pro-immigrant rallies, pro-choice rallies, and anti-Bush-War demonstrations.
In fact, the anti-tax movement would be the Norm Coleman of causes.
Please comment here if you find any information about actual numbers at a national level. Beyond that, what level of attendance would be considered a success?
But you couldn't organise them in real fact. By the same token your numbers are a local peep. Of course; I can understand because you really couldn't do one in many places because of the anti-war protesters so often turn in the cop car burning;property damaging ;looting riots as we have seen. whata;shouda; coulda is meaninglesss. Bragging about what you could of but didn't do ;that takes the cake.
This is about as meaningless as you can get. Are you really proposing this in all seriousness?
Obama never attempted this. That's like saying teabaggers got more people than Obama if you just count GOP members. Or old, straight, white people. What possible sense does your comparison make at all?
And in the only national gathering attempted by Obama - he did kick your side's butt.
Again - your imagination is no match for reality.
It's a statistic, just like the 24-hour money bomb (am I allowed to say that...B-O-M-B?) that raised more money than Obama's "money bombs" could ever have.
Comparing apples for apples is meaningless because the DNC funded the Obamatron pow wows. Only tin foil hat wearing psychopaths believe the tea party was actually funded by anyone other than grassroot organizations.
A nobody candidate raised more money than Obama could in a 24 hour period.
Don't know whom you're referring but I do know that Obama raised over a half billion dollars for his campaign; $10million in one 24 hour period.
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