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Tea Party Crowd Estimate: 60-70,000 People

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines9/12/2009 11:45:30 pm PDT

All of us have some experience with what large crowds look like. Just think of a football game, like the one here in Lubbock tonight that had an attendance of about 45,000 (Texas Tech 55 Rice 10 btw). The crowd at an event like today’s protest will spread out over several times the area but it still shouldn’t be too hard to guess at least the magnitude of the number.

I got some sharp responses when I mocked Michelle Malkin’s claim of 2 million earlier today. I had some rational reasons to do so though. I could at least tell from simple observation and experience that the crowd was nowhere near a couple of million.
If nothing else, keep in mind that DC is not a large city geographically, 61 square miles. Two million extra people, on top of residents, commuters, and tourists, would simply inundate the place. That would be roughly 30,000 per square mile, nearly 500 per acre over the entire area of the city, buildings, restricted areas and all.