The crowd-counting discussion is now well beyond Minneapolis (literally).
Please stop the thread now, thanks.

David Brauer
List manager

> I covered the 'support our troops' rally on Saturday and was told that the
> Capitol plant manager estimated the crowd at between 5 and 10k.  A state
> trooper I talked to up at the top of the stairs told me 6 to 7 thousand,
but
> added that the State patrol was not going to offer official estimates
because
> they were 'tired of being wrong.'
> 
> I was also at the Oct. 26 anti-war rally and can safely say that
Saturday's
> rally numbers did not greatly exceed the Oct. 26 rally.  There may have
been
> a few more than the Oct. 26 rally (the weather was also a lot nicer than
last
> fall), but I can't image there was nearly double the number.



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