"I'm certain the marchers here in New York have exceeded ... 250,000 ...

[Pirate Smile]

David Shuster re MSNBC's Hardblogger:

"I'm certain the marchers here in New York have exceeded, by a large number, the 250,000 that had been predicted."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/


"I've been covering demonstrations and protest marches for 14 years. And while I know some of you may not like this, I'm certain the marchers here in New York have exceeded, by a large number, the 250,000 that had been predicted. The parade of demonstrators walking along the route is simply jammed. And it's been that way for the last two hours. Among the more creative anti-war signs was a picture of Jenna Bush in combat fatigues that said "Let Jenna serve."'

This is posted before Joe Trippi's blog on Hardblogger.

[2Design]

1. absolutely.....looks at the arial pictures on yahoo....

it is at least as big as womans march if not bigger.....I think we had close to 1 million....

[EST]

5. Beautiful, f***ing beautiful!

[Tamyrlin79]

8. Link?

Where are these alleged Aerial photos on yahoo?

[2Design]

16. sorry...I just started at one picture and kept clicking.....but

if you go to yahoo and do a search on protesters you will probably find them......

[2Design]

18. here's one....

&e=2

[pacalo]

2. Excellent. Thank you.

[cjbuchanan]

3. But I'm sure it's just a "focus group."*

Nothing to talk about. They are all crazy.

Election Day is going to be a lot of fun.

* for those who do not remember, Bush compared the million+ people who protested the oncoming war against Iraq to a focus group.

[nyhuskyfan]

4. It's now almost 4:00

And they are still streaming past Madison Square Garden in huge numbers. That's a steady stream almost non-stop for four hours.

[ezee]

11. Remember what Custer said at the Little Big Horn

"THey just keep com'in and com'in

[VolcanoJen]

6. Amazing. God, I really needed this today!!!!

I'm so proud of the protestors, our brothers-in-arms, that I'm practically beaming.

Just watching this makes me feel sooooo much better! And to hear that we've easily exceeded 250,000 is the best, most unexpected news of all!!!

[jrthin]

7. I agree, it has to be. I

was in the March and for most of it, I felt like I was standing still because there were sooo many people ahead of us and beside us.

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Perhaps MSNBC should be given positive feedback.

A nice DU mass-email campaign could work wonders for their leftward shift.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. Good idea

I just did it, using this email address:

[e-mail]

[iconoclastic cat]

13. Thanks for the link!

Could the DU Media Blaster include this sort of thing? A "positive feedback" blast?

[Cheswick2.0]

10. what is the formula for counting protestors?

[iconoclastic cat]

14. Here's a post by wellstone_dem:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2279588&mesg_id=2280145&page=

[Sugarbleus]

15. Just signed on to say WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS MARCH IS AWESOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE !!!!

Thank you Activists and citizens and thank you NYC!


WTG C-SPAN!!

[Cha]

17. I forget who I read earlier on du that said..

It doesn't look like they got the number of protesters predicted..probably faux.

[Pirate Smile]

19. Alex (can't remember her last name) from MSNBC reporting on the

protest said that early in the protest but that was before everyone marched past. Right now she is saying they are trying to get a number from the NYPD but they haven't yet.

[Pirate Smile]

20. kick

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