Officers with the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department told WND the department does not provide crowd estimates. Capitol police declined to comment.

However, Wizbang estimated between 500,000 and 1 million. The blog displays the following time-lapse image of the march:


The London Daily Mail originally estimated a turnout of "up to 2 million," but that estimate now reads "as many as one million people."

Meanwhile, Fox News' Glenn Beck said he believes he heard estimates closer to 1.7 million coming from the University of Illinois.

Pajamas Media's Charlie Martin used several crowd counting techniques to estimate a crowd of "probably well more than 850,000."

The Los Angeles Times reported Pete Sepp, spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, said rally organizers believed the crowd reached 75,000 in the morning, but that it grew to between 200,000 and 300,000 as the day went on.

Farouk El-Baz, a Boston University research professor and expert on crowd estimation, told the Los Angeles Times his casual research from press coverage indicates 75,000 as the maximum number of attendees. Click here to continue...


Posted on September 16, 2009 @ 11:30 am
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