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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:02 AM
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ATTN: DUer Experts At Estimating Crowd Sizes, Need Your Services On Teabagger Crowd Shot
Here's a traffic cam overlooking the teabaggers:

http://www.trafficland.com/city/WAS/camera/9087/index.html

How big do you think? I'm saying maybe 15,000.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:05 AM
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1. It looks like a lot of people, maybe 25k to me.
Not the 2million they are especting but it is still early.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:12 AM
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7. IT got bigger since I first looked at it
I agree, 25K at the most right now.
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angrycarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:05 AM
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2. I bet that flag at half mast in the foreground
really burns their ass.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:06 AM
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3. that is a huge crowd!
Go teabags!
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:07 AM
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4. There were 50 times that just lining the streets and overpasses at Teddy
Kennedy's funeral.
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rbrnmw Donating Member (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-13-09 03:33 AM
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51. Maybe where the pics came from ??? Flags were at half mast that day!!!!!!!!!
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:09 AM
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5. The "Million" White People March
will look embarrassingly like a few thousand.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:12 AM
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8. Rational people are asking where these hypocrites were
hiding for the past eight years. Fuck them. I can't wait to watch their ignorance on display with their dumb signs with 'moran spelling' and Rethug grammar. Did I say fuck them? Fuck them!!
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:11 AM
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6. What I've done in the past
is used overhead (helicopter or high vantage point) shots, then I use google planimeter to precisely draw a polygon around the people. That gives an area that they occupy. The a close up shot can give you an idea of density (distance between clusters, blankets spread out, sitting or standing, etc). A little bit of math later and you have an estimate. Need a direct overhead that gets all of the crowd, even if it stretches down the street.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:13 AM
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9. This is HUGH!!!1!!!
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:17 AM
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13. It;s SERIES!!!!11!
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:14 AM
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10. Including the KKK members, I estimate a few thousand people.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:15 AM
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11. Remind me again why are they there?
What's the point of their march? What are they hoping to accomplish? Who benefits? How is the country going to be better off?
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:32 AM
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35. they want the hypnotic state achieved by Sep 11 to continue forever
Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 09:33 AM by librechik
and the return of the Bush Monarchy.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:16 AM
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12. That's a lot of stupid assholes, looks like the aggregate IQ of a lot of the country shot up some
And DC's has been lowered considerably.
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kalli007 Donating Member (164 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:20 AM
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16. Just looking at some of the signs...
carried by these "people" (CNN)....I am sorry, there is NO WAY you can deny that this is fueled by racism. NO WAY.

Picture of some sort of African Zulu King with Obama's face pasted on....at the bottom says "Obama Scare" with the commie sign in place of the "S"......
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:18 AM
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14. Showing the same cam image on MSNBC
Crowd is much less dense than it appears on the internet.

Looks like about 2000 people in that area.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:25 AM
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25. I noticed that the people in the crowd seem to be keeping their distance from each other.
Possible reasons?

- fear that if someone accidentally jostles the wrong person, thereby threatening or insulting them, gun play will ensue

- lack of attention to or ignorance of routine bodily hygiene

- these people really do hate everybody but themselves
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:30 AM
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31. You are wrong about that.
they hate EVERYONE, but especially themselves. Basic pysch profile.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:27 AM
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27. Nah, this crowd is DENSE, just not in the way you mean. - n/t
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:19 AM
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15. Did they have to get permits for that?
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:21 AM
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17. 50,000
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:22 AM
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18. I can't give you a number, but that is a lot of selfish, dumb
*&^@s
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:22 AM
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19. So when are the liberals going to do the same? Give 'em a REAL showing....
of course the Ministry of Propaganda would have to actually show the same type of photos and video.

My guess is the mediawhores will more than likely completely ignore any liberal counter protest activities, as usual.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:23 AM
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20. CNN saying 30,000
I'm wondering what the National PArk service says.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:23 AM
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21. Alex Witt thinks there's 100K there, and she's scared already.
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:25 AM
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24. Do you hear the Republican spokemodels on this?
A lot of them aren't Republicans...

Try to disown the creatures you spawned, go ahead.
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:28 AM
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28. They are not spokesmodels.
They are news actresses. :evilgrin:
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:31 AM
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32. I was thinking more of the guy, actually
but yeah, it's all the same!
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:33 AM
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38. Okay, news actors too.
But either way, they do make for great comedy, don't they? :)
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:35 AM
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41. They do. Or horror. Or both. nt
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:29 AM
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29. Her voice got all high-pitched when she exclaimed it looked likes hundreds of thousands.
Guy on ground said tens of thousands but she doesn't believe him. :wtf:
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:31 AM
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34. Well, that much stupid in one place IS pretty scary! nt
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:34 AM
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39. There she goes again. "Gotta be more than 30 thousand!" n/t
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:23 AM
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22. And divide your estimate by .5
to account for all the half-wits
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:31 AM
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33. That's funny!
:rofl:
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:33 AM
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37. Mathematically incorrect but funny.
Multiply by .5 or divide by 2 to account for the half wits.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:00 AM
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46. Yes that's what I meant
3/4 wit here : - ))
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Bleacher Creature Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:24 AM
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23. No fewer than 3 million.
That's what I expected.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:26 AM
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26. Troublemakers.



Somebody call the police on that riff-raff.



:rofl:
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:30 AM
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30. They chant...
WHAT DO WE WANT...we don't fucking know.... WHEN DO WE WANT IT .....now


WHAT DO WE WANT...we don't fucking know.... WHEN DO WE WANT IT .....now


WHAT DO WE WANT...we don't fucking know.... WHEN DO WE WANT IT .....now
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marketcrazy1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:37 AM
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43. thats ALOT of people!! N/T
we can rag on these people all day but the bottom line is they are out there, protesting for what they believe in. when are WE going to do the same?? for every person in DC today there are hundreds more who believe as these protesters do. a significant number of Americans are not happy with our government. we need to get a handle on this pretty quick or we could be in real trouble... FFT....
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:45 AM
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44. Faux news has brainwashed thousands.
Including my elderly parents. The latest call from my Dad was about ACORN! Glen Beck is Dangerous.

I am hoping there is a Big Protest against Glen Beck when he gets the KEY to Mt. Vernon WA on the 26th of this month.

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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-13-09 03:15 AM
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50. lol!
so funny
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:33 AM
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36. 6 months in the preparing, nation tv to promote beck said.... thousands
THOUSANDS i say, i laugh adn laugh. thousands. a nation of millions and 6 months in the making, nation promotion and he could only gather thousands.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:35 AM
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40. Meanwhile all across the USA, Mom's basements being fumigated
Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 09:38 AM by Kingofalldems
And Cheeto stains scrubbed.
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:36 AM
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42. DUzy! DUzy!
:rofl:
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:15 AM
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47. Now THAT'S funny...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Puglover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:45 AM
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45. Anyone want to take a guess at the combined IQ? nt
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:17 AM
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48. Well, let's say 30,000 warm or almost warm bodies...
Combined IQ would be 300,000.

No? Ok, seriously, 2,550,000. (Yup, that's a real number)
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:21 AM
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49. I need Overhead photos!
and a few closeups. That's what I need to estimate crowd size.
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