Twitter: 500,000 now in protest. ( can any one find another source for this #?)

[dixiegrrrrl]

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Translation

5K, if they are nice 50K... official police numbers.

No you will not find any,

[Firebrand Gary]

2. I cannot believe this. Actually I can.

Media? Really?

[bluestateguy]

3. You might as well just lie.

Glen Beck's teabaggers could get away with saying they had 1.2 million, when they had (if they were lucky) 120,000.

[brooklynite]

4. Not a prayer...

Look at the video feed; people are walking on one sidewalk. The street and the opposite side are virtually empty.

[RZM]

5. I don't know how many are there, but it's certainly not anywhere near 500K

Given the pics and video I've seen, I'd say something closer to a couple thousand. Not that I'm trained for these types of things, of course ;)

500,000 people would be roughly 1 out of every 600 people in the country (and the rates would have to be far, far higher for the area around NYC to account for all of those people from the rest of the country who aren't there).

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. What protest?

[femmocrat]

8. Wall Street, I think?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1957712

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Thanks.

[ChandlerJr]

7. On a busy WORK day those sidewalks are choked with people

just sayin'

[Blue_In_AK]

10. I just read 50,000. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Where did you see that, Blue????

[Blue_In_AK]

12. It was Twitter,

so it's probably not true. Someone else said guaranteed at least 9,000. They're discussing the possibilities of arrests now.

[Ian David]

13. In any case, if you want cameras to show-up, you need about a dozen teabagger counter-protesters, nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Someone mentioned that on Twitter also.

" half a dozen tea baggers standing around yellowing about brown skinned people gets more tv coverage".

The little bit I saw of the CNN Republican Debate coverage has me convinced that no person with an IQ over room temperature has any business watching that network.