Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

[GeneralHankerchief]

The 'real' figure that was cited at the rally was 150,000. That seems a bit low to me. It looked like the largest rally in DC since the inauguration. My personal guess would be 200k to 300k. Here's how it looked from my vantage point:

The official figure cited for the inauguration was 1.8 million.* Even though the crowd in that one stretched starting from the Capitol to behind the Monument (and probably farther off to the sides as well), I don't think the difference was enough to account for 1.6 million people. I'd put the crowd size at a bit north of 400k, all told.

Definitely larger than Beck's though, and I was at that one too.

*The NPS stopped doing official crowd size estimates in the 1960s, so I'm frankly not sure if any of these numbers are valid or if it's just an amalgamation of numbers from various sources that just eventually reach a consensus.

-edit- Also, my "Best Sign of the Day" award went to the guy dressed in the French Imperial Guard uniform whose sign said "Repeal the Third Amendment". Absolutely glorious.