Saturday, September 12, 2009

912 Tea Party in DC Headcount

The Democrats in Congress, specifically an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelocchio, sent out a memo last night “warning” other libs that there could be 1-2 million attendees at the Capitol for today’s protest.

Event organizers said they expected 30,000-50,000 people and would be thrilled to recieve that number of participants.

While the MSM news stations (Fox included) have been saying there are “thousands” or “tens of thousands” of protesters, numbers are starting to come in.

It was just reported to me that a speaker has just announced that ABC reported 1.5 million tea party patriots with more attendees still arriving in. I have not been able to find verification of that on the internet as of yet, but I will keep looking.

An unnamed Fox news reporter told some attendees that there were 50 people per second marching down Pennsylvania Avenue for 2 and a half hours, plus some stragglers for another 45 minutes, at about 20 people per second. This translates to about 500,000 people in the march, headed for the Capitol lawn.

While we are still waiting for number confirmations, we’ve found that any MSM crowd estimate is about 1/3 of the real size. So, while we continue to hear reports from NBC, CNN, Fox, etc, keep in mind that you need to multiply their crowd estimates by 3 to get the real number.

Keep coming back for more updates, pictures, and video later on tonight.

[Via http://papundits.wordpress.com]

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