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Don't you know that there were 000000 people who showed up. It was a right wing conspiracy...the reality is everyone agrees with BHO so no one got together to protest.......
Actually, what I saw was millions of people, with everyone doubled up with a person on their shoulders, and they spread all the way down to the Potomac and some people were 3 feet out into the water.
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 9:39 PM on 12th September 2009
Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending. The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
According to the CSPan video, the numerous pictures and the Park Service schematic of Mall crowd estimation, probably a couple hundred thousand were there - a great success!
Why does the number matter so much to Republicans? Do you validate the worthiness of your cause simply by counting the number of people who agree with you? Wouldn't actual results be a better measure of the overall effectiveness of your cause?
The number of people attending the rally matters to them because it is their way of consoling themselves for their humiliating defeat in the last election. They can tell themselves "look ma, thousands of wingnuts like me attended the rally in DC! Our cause must be valid!".
Of course our democracy isn't decided by the number of wingnuts that show up in rallies. It is determined by the results of actual elections.
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