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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?
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?
Probably the same reason that people quote the number that attended the inauguration. Ask Saganista. I know he did this at least once to belittle the turnout today.
As for results being an indicator of success? I think we just need wait a bit and we will see how that turns out. I have a pretty good idea about what the actual results of today will be.
my mom was there. she drove hours and she went by herself. she said she heard estimates of close to 1 million. as she was driving home, she heard on the radio "tens of thousands" LOL
WRC Channel 4 from Washington puts the crowd at from 15-20,000. This seems reasonable. A crowd of about 1,000,000 fills up the entire Mall standing room only from the US Capital to beyond the Washington Monument and to the Lincoln Memorial. By contrast the area alone Pennsylvania Avenue where this march took place is about 1/20th of this area so if you try to put a million people there it would be a pile of bodies about 20 deep stretching about a mile and a half from the Capital to Treasury Building. Most of those bodies would be dead from the weight and from suffication.
WRC Channel 4 from Washington puts the crowd at from 15-20,000. This seems reasonable. A crowd of about 1,000,000 fills up the entire Mall standing room only from the US Capital to beyond the Washington Monument and to the Lincoln Memorial. By contrast the area alone Pennsylvania Avenue where this march took place is about 1/20th of this area so if you try to put a million people there it would be a pile of bodies about 20 deep stretching about a mile and a half from the Capital to Treasury Building. Most of those bodies would be dead from the weight and from suffication.
I guess you are right about the 1 million but I don't think you are even close on your other number. None of the people I heard interviewed on Fox were even lying down, let alone dead.
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Police estimate 1.2 million in attendance. ABC News reporting crowd at 2 million
