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[1] Every picture I've seen of the crowd yesterday (a good-sized crowd) from the Capitol Building through the first section of the Mall shows plenty of open spaces. The Park Service diagram is based on one person to every 2.5 square feet. There may have been, and probably were, many places where the crowd was that dense, but many others where it wasn't.
[2] I think it's deliciously ironic that the people who are striving mightily to inflate what are very decent crowd estimates for yesterday's protest are using a diagram appearing in an old USA Today intended to help in estimating the crowd at President Obama's inauguration.
The bottom layer is the 9/12 crowd. You'll see the metric chart fade in on top of it as it cycles through before starting over again. Click to enlarge.
[1] Every picture I've seen of the crowd yesterday (a good-sized crowd) from the Capitol Building through the first section of the Mall shows plenty of open spaces. The Park Service diagram is based on one person to every 2.5 square feet. There may have been, and probably were, many places where the crowd was that dense, but many others where it wasn't.
[2] I think it's deliciously ironic that the people who are striving mightily to inflate what are very decent crowd estimates for yesterday's protest are using a diagram appearing in an old USA Today intended to help in estimating the crowd at President Obama's inauguration.
It seems more to me that people are trying to deflate...
Officials are casting doubt on an early projection that 4 million to 5 million people could jam downtown Washington on Inauguration Day, saying it is more likely that the crowd will be about half that size.
A record crowd for inauguration? Hard to say - Los Angeles Times (http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/21/nation/na-inaug-crowds21 - broken link)
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Though early estimates ranged as high as 2 million people, satellite images of Obama's swearing-in suggested the crowd was probably about half that, said Clark McPhail, who has been analyzing crowds on the National Mall since the 1960s.
The incredible shrinking crowd at Obama’s inauguration | The Editors’ Desk | STLtoday (http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/01/the-incredible-shrinking-crowd-at-obamas-inauguration/ - broken link)
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An item linked from the Romenesko media newsletter quotes an Arizona State University professor as saying the crowd didn’t even reach a million:
“An ASU journalism professor using satellite images calculated that 800,000 people attended President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony.
I'm not sure I follow you, BigJon3475 - are you saying the photo showing crowds of people going up to and around the Washington Monument are part of the 9/12 rally?
C-SPAN Video Player - Conservatives to march on Washington (http://www.cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/09/12/HP/R/23055/Conservatives+to+march+on+Washington.aspx - broken link)
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heh....
