Wealthy right wing teabagged 250k
"Tea Party" Protests Appear to Draw At Least 250,000
by Nate Silver @ 6:36 AM
This is an update and probably the last one. Those of you who are interested in extending the analysis (there are undoubtedly many events missing, although most of the major ones should now be covered) are encouraged to do so at Wikipedia or elsewhere.
But, based on news accounts of 306 "Tea Party" protests in different cities across the country yesterday, I get a cumulative attendance of 262,025, with a fair number of (probably mostly smaller) events still unaccounted for.
These figures, wherever possible, are drawn from objective attempts to estimate crowd sizes, such as police accounts or estimates made by reporters. Organizers of these events have strong incentives to exaggerate crowd sizes. Participants in them may have some of the same incentives, and it is notoriously difficult for people to accurately estimate crowd sizes once attendance has reached more than a few dozen individuals.
Atlanta, GA - 7,000 (per archived article; since changed to "thousands")
Denver, CO - 5,000
Phoenix, AZ - 5,000
Madison, WI - 5,000
Bossier City, LA - 5,000
San Antonio, TX - 4,500
Olympia, WA - 4,500 (average of two estimates)
Lansing, MI - 4,500 (average of two estimates)
Jacksonville, FL - 4,500
Oklahoma City, OK - 4,500 (average of two estimates)
Dallas, TX - 4,000
Fort Myers, FL - 4,000
Fort Worth, TX - 3,750 (average of two estimates)
Indianapolis, IN - 3,625 (average of two estimates)
Vero Beach, FL - 3,500
Sacramento, CA - 3,500 (average of two estimates)
The rest is less than this.
FiveThirtyEight
-VG
I just urge ya'll to get on the bandwagon!
