Here’s a site with attendance estimates from various sources, along with photos. The numbers are all over the map, but the site includes photos from The Million Man March in 1995 and of the 9/12 March on Washington. Comparing the photos might give you an idea of what estimates are most accurate.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109844
Here’s links to other photos/reports:
Newest Update 10/2
http://www.independencehalltpa.com/
Thomas Jefferson Club member’s observations
Check out this amazing photo. Freedomworks will be selling it as a poster.
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/mkibbe/amazing-912-photo-view-here
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109776
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/12/celebrating-the-912-rallies/
I’ve heard estimates of 10,000 in Chicago and 12,000 in Quincy, IL.
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15283
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/
http://americansforprosperity.org/091209-afp-912-taxpayer-march-washington
http://americangrandjury.org/march-on-dc-draws-2-million
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9655635@N08/sets/72157622351394164/
http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m9d12-March-on-DC-draws-2-million
MSNBC coverage http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2009/09/msnbc-gives-decent-coverage-of-dc-tea.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMoQDKHYM74
Reports of 10,000 in Fort Worth, TX.
http://theminorityreportblog.com/story/steve_foley/2009/09/12/dc_tea_party_rally_9_12_teaparty
http://www.lonelyconservative.com/2009/09/12/912-dc-rally-too-big-for-media-to-ignore/
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/10523
http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sign-from-912
http://www.conunderground.com/live-from-dc-its-saturday-morning-912/
http://www.jeffhead.com/americaawakes.htm
http://blog.ntu.org/main/post.php?post_id=4864
http://pawatercooler.com/?p=15590
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/09/best-tea-party-signs-from-dc-via.html
Anyone else have any numbers for other locations, or any “official numbers” for DC?
September 14, 2009 at 4:55 pm |
My wife and I would like to join the Thomas Jefferson Club, we live in Yardley. We attended the Washington Tea Party last Saturday with the Doylestown group and had a great time and would like to do more. Please send me the information as to how to join.
Thank you,
September 14, 2009 at 8:44 pm |
Welcome! Check out the Thomas Jefferson Club Meetup (link is on the Thomas Jefferson Club blogroll.) There’s lots of information there.
September 14, 2009 at 7:08 am |
Am I reading the first link wrong? It seems to be about Obama’s inauguration, not about the tea party.
Note – You were reading it right. I must have picked up the wrong link last night and now can’t find it. I deleted from the list. Thanks for pointing it out!
September 13, 2009 at 8:52 am |
Now look: Whoever wrote this is just adding fuel to the fire of “he said – she said” lies. I went on Ms. Malkin’s site yesterday evening where she had reported an estimate of 1.2 million.
Isn’t that enough? Did you really need to exaggerate almost to the extent of doubling her estimate? Its this kind of “reporting” that makes us 9-12’ers and other patriots look like, well, the opposition.
Note: Michelle Malkin earlier in the day quoted the 2 million number, as did ABC. We just hadn’t updated the blog at the time you saw it.