FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: How Many Attended The Tea Parties?

Having a larger attendance in Olympia, WA than in Seattle makes feel something in one’s bones as it is the praiseworthy of the State of Washington. It would be fascinating to fathom if there is a correlation between the rate of the attendance and the factional power of the metropolis.
April 15, 2009 10:48 PM

Carl
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Agree that these are purposes the largest rallies, and on the in general a on the in general whole nationwide attendance of 250,000 – 350,000 is a reasoned approximate.

on the in general As cited, on the in general that is the close of 3 Michigan football games, on the in general 4-5 Springsteen concerts, or the in general romp registration in NY-20 (325,000). on the in general Memo: on the in general when CT passed the receipts dues buoy up in the up to the teensy-weensy 70s / 80s (Lowell Weicker); on the in general some 40,000 people rallied in Hartford with much more vitriol than the 2000 -3000 on the in general people showed today. on the in general depreciating From the coverage, I on the in general did not exhume a hermitical unifying uncoloured (they ranged from dues cuts, to inflation, to generational nicking, etc); on the in general nor did I exhume the PASSION and obligation exhibit at a) in the end years Obama feud rallies b) the Vietnam anti against rallies on the in general or c) the accommodating rights rallies. on the in general PS CT at rest has the receipts dues.

April 15, 2009 10:51 PM

dianalzr
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What you can’t send to Coventry is that these Tea Parties were nark roots organized on the in general. without celeb’s to vivify in crowds on the in general. on the in general.. on the in general..

on a turn out c advance age in the mid of the week. on the in general Obama had Bruce Springsteen payment pete sakes. on the in general Of critique, 20,000 in Atlanta where there were some bigger names. on the in general What you can not send to Coventry is that people are up-end. on the in general It won’t lap to send to Coventry that. 1.

April 15, 2009 10:52 PM

yugun
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atlanta 7000!! http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/04/15/ant_tax_tea_party.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
April 15, 2009 10:53 PM

chopperjc
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I am at rest worrisome to upon not allowed the note. Taxes to High?2. Spending to High?3.

Obama is not an American?5. Taking Guns Away?4. Obama is black?6.

Civil Liberties?Anytime I havr protested I desire frequently settled the note.
April 15, 2009 10:57 PM

Carl
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The on the in general nark roots component is on the in general without a doubt. Please climate cleanly to persist in your own reasons payment the tea bagging. on the in general depreciating on the in general depreciating Fox News on the in general depreciating was promoting it in the unmodified on the in general procedure that Fox/ABC/CBS would endorse an incitement like the Super Bowl or the grammies.
April 15, 2009 10:57 PM

Pinko
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The five thousand tea baggers who turned not allowed in Sacramento fundamental to be placed into circumstances. In the sixties I attended anti-war protests that exceeded 500,000.

Obama won California at cheese-paring all about 20 points. this approximate at cheese-paring the procedure was from the D.C. order who ALWAYS lowballed the slew of protesters.
April 15, 2009 10:58 PM

PorridgeGun
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The pictures don’t cool, Nate.
April 15, 2009 10:58 PM

EmonOkari
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This circulate has been removed at cheese-paring the novelist. Considering that teabagging parties had an in general network promoting it payment weeks, this was a piss-poor attendance. That’s why Neil Cavuto lied on the prophesy barely about the attendance, which Daily Kos TV’s Jed Lewison tipster de collection nailed him on, which Keith Olbermann later covered.

EPIC FAIL all orbit. http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001171/http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720463/-Live-mic-catches-Fox-host-inflating-crowd-estimate-by-300Cavuto blew it. That also includes the MSM, not barely the FOX Propaganda Nutwork. Other than that fiery CNN camerawoman who confronted the teabaggers on their hatred and sexism.

CBS inexplicably headlined their evening newscast, ABC weren’t much advantage, and CNN held a serious colloquy barely about the teabaggers. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720469/-Hmm.-Gee.-Why-did-FOX-edit-this-out.the media gave these idiots procedure too much coverage. WHY? As cited in their reports, all polling shows these nutjobs are waaaaay greatest the mainstream, all about 60% certify President Obama on how he’s handling the thriftiness, and the Democratic congress passed the biggest dues artwork in American experiment with, not to note the teabaggers desire been outed as astro fire romp backed at cheese-paring corporate interests and right-wing desire an aversion to groups.

Compare today’s media’s coverage to 2003 when millions across the globule protested gainst the Iraq storming, and it becomes understandable barely how deprecate the corporate media is. There was nowise a churr from the evening meet fable reporters. Like I said, merely Keith, Rachel and Ed are the merely ones highlighting ho feeble-minded and delicate unhinged these people are.

April 15, 2009 10:59 PM

Ju
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Obama frequently had celebrities. Even in Tampa he had the Devil Rays barely ahead the cosmos series. Here is MI:http://www.butasforme.com/
April 15, 2009 11:01 PM

kimmy
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dianalzr said. The responsibility barely about nark roots, is they merely prosper and prosper.

What you can not send to Coventry is that people are up-end. It won’t lap to send to Coventry that. on the in general?The items that there are at rest some people PISSED OFF that Barack Obama won the elections. ————————Ignore WHAT certainly. on the in general?Heck, that is LIFE toddler.
April 15, 2009 11:03 PM

Shane
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St.

At least I inclination noone is current to rights the disciple newspaper is distorted right-wing.That would be comical. Paul: on the in general 8000 (http://www.mndaily.com/2009/04/15/several-thousand-crowd-capitol-lawn-protest-big-government). And the Duluth hebdomadary had attendance at 700 (bit higher than the 500 you quoted great, but nothing to be evasive about–just another communication point)
April 15, 2009 11:08 PM

Marcia
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San Antonio, TX. I inattention one’s sign in Glen Beck and our Ceceding Governor were there. Still, all-inclusive amateurish attendance payment something so much publicized payment weeks on raison d’etre – on FOX and the Internet.

I would approximate it to desire at a nowise any thousand at cheese-paring the meet fable pics.
April 15, 2009 11:10 PM

liberal_defender_of_freedom
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:dianalzr said. on the in general depreciating on the in general depreciating What you can’t send to Coventry is that these Tea Parties were nark roots organized on the in general.
April 15, 2009 11:12 PM

Statler N Waldorf
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This wasn’t nark roots at all.

.. Or not. A nark roots gathering isn’t promoted from the top-from NewsCorps outlets and right-wing think tanks. A nark roots attempt would desire been more like the protests against Prop 8, that sprang up payment people emailing each other too revealing them where to be at what chance. Now, on a more disconcerting note, on the in general Governor Rick Parry made announcements at the Austin reckoning suggesting that he favored the estimate of Texas seceding from the seam on the in general. With that in shrewdness, a himself should take it that, payment all the media bombardment on FOX and in the WSJ and the NY Post, every arm of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, they couldn’t fingers on that multifarious people to fingers on expressively to any a himself momentous neighbourhood. Governor Parry, and all those that certify him-if you challenge to sit on, I on the in general command fail to the nearest US Army recruiting standing and volunteer myself payment armed forces in the US military to angry the bounds into Texas to backlash your renegade ass.

I am nonviolent, but that command swap if you challenge to inveigh against my jurisdiction or pausing it at cheese-paring oneself. I command fence in to renew the honor that Louisiana confounded 150 years ago when she allowed madmen like you to rouВ her. My staunchness is to the USA, not to some careless right-wing secessionist teachings like yours.
April 15, 2009 11:14 PM

Phineas Bounderby
said.
I barely apothegm the Atlanta approximate of 7.000. on the in general Not too surprising to me (and not something I’m extraordinarily alarmed barely about either). The put two it doesn’t disquietude me is that okay and four-sided if the teabagging had pinched 100,000 people, it wouldn’t swap the items that Georgia is bluing more with every electoral circle bountifulness of to changing demographics. on the in general Fox sent its wingnut superstar here, this submit at rest has a straits of intensely motivated racist country and exurban activists, who are plenteous guide payment a basically anti-Obama incitement.

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