[lbo-talk] [ANSWER]: 8 PM C-SPAN REBROADCAST of OCT. 25 RALLY in DC

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Oct 26 09:56:40 PST 2003


Chuck0 wrote:


>>The march and rally today in Washington DC - estimated by march
>>organizers to number 100,000 - will be rebroadcast this evening at
>>8:00 p.m. on C-Span 1.
>
>That's funny. The cops estimated the event at between 10 and 20,000.
>Normally, ANSWER's estimate is 3 times the number that actually show
>up, so is this a sign of their desperation?

Well, according to Andy Kopkind's classic formula:

attendance = average(2*cop estimate,.5*organizers' estimate),

and taking the midpoint of the cop estimate, we get

average(30000,50000)

or

40,000.

Not the stuff to make the empire quake in its boots.

Doug



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