How many people?

After the Taxpayer March on Washington Saturday everyone wants to know how many people where there? If you were there as I was you probably heard rumor of anywhere from 50,000 to 2.5 million people. When you got home you saw the liberal media saying anywhere from 50,000 to 75,000.

Is this right? Should we trust the Liberal media to tell us how many people were there?

No it’s not right! The liberal media is lying to the American people!

Because I was a bit skeptical of the 2.5 million number, and I don’t trust the main stream media to tell me how many people were there I decided that I would do the calculations and figuring myself. While I am by no means a mathematician I have done my best to explain my methods and show you all how the media is filtering and outright lying to you and the rest of the American people.

First of all lets watch a few YouTube videos that will help us understand the scale of how many people where there.

Sophia Elena Reporting (panoramic view of capitol grounds at the end)

Time Lapse photography of the march

We will use the Sophia Elena Report video as the basis of my estimation here. I know how many people were there and what areas were filled but I just wanted you all to see exactly so you knew the truth.

The first part of the video really shows you how many people walked down Pennsylvania Ave. But the last part is what we are interested in. This shows a panoramic view of the capital grounds and the national mall beyond.

Detailed description of video:

On the far right:Capitol lawn completely covered in people.
Pennsylvania Ave: As far as you can see down is Completely filled.
Main stage area and mall beyond: Stage area completely filled including streets in capitol grounds, National mall filled to first street.
On far right: Lawn is completely filled.

As you can see from the video the entire capital grounds were completely covered including the roads and sidewalks. Also there are a unknown amount of people still marching on Pennsylvania Ave.

To estimate the amount of people convincingly even for libs I am going to use the data from Obama’s Inaugural address.

Take a look at the second picture in this post. This was sent to me via Kyle Koehler. and is a screenshot of the graphic that USA Today used to show the attendance to the Inauguration. You can see that they estimate that the ticketed area of the Capitol (shown in yellow) would hold 240,000 people. Notice that this does not include the streets, sidewalks, and other parts of the grounds that were not used for the inauguration.

The next picture is a satellite image taken from Geoeye. It shows the crowds at the inauguration from the sky. I imported this image into Paint (sorry I’m not more techie but it’s the best I could do) I have outlined the areas that people were for the protest on Saturday. As shown in the video. You can see the Black areas are the ones that I’m sure were completely filled. The red are the ones that had people but not packed to the brim. You can see many of these areas were not used in the inauguration ceremony.

The next image is another edit containing the same outlines on the USA image. You can see that there are many different areas that were not contained in their estimations of the compactly that were occupied during the protest.

Now lets look the numbers from the inauguration.

The estimate for the inauguration was 1.8 to 2 million people according to USA Today. Just to be fair we will go with their high number to make them feel better. If you look at the satellite image of the crowd you will see I have circled 8 approximately the same size groups of people in blue and labeled them 1 through 8. Now let’s divide the total of number of people by the number of groups.

2,000,000,000/8=250,000 people in each group. Which about corresponds to the USA Today estimation of the holding of the Capitol grounds.

Here’s where it gets interesting.

The easiest way to estimate the crowd is to take the people we know were at the inauguration and move them into the areas that were filled by the protest but not by the inauguration of the Satellite image.

First of all we already have two groups inside of that area so we will leave them there.

Next take group “1” and more it into area “D” This should fill this area fully.

Now we need to fill the capital grounds north of the pool or area “B.” Move group “2” into this area. You can see that this should fill this area and fill in come of the roads contained in area “A.”

There is still quite a bit of area left in the Capitol grounds so we will take group “3” and move it into area’s “C, A, and E” filling in the remaining roadways and sidewalks.
So now we have FOUR inaugural groups of 250,000 in the areas that were covered by the protest.

250,000 + 250,000 + 250,000 +250,000 = 1 MILLION PEOPLE!

I hope this rough approximation has shown you that the media is in no way telling the whole story about what I believe is the greatest political protest in the history of the country. Now I’m not saying my methods are scientific in anyway. And this estimation is open to debate. I just wanted to show that there is no way that the media is telling the whole story.

Even if I have totally overstepped and there were only 2 groups of people in the capitol then that would still be 500,000 people. WAY MORE then what the media is saying.

I’m also very disappointed in Fox News. They have gone right along with all the other mainstream media and lied to the American people.

Please let me know what you think about my estimation and share it with others

NOTE: I’m trying to see when the Sophia Elena Video was taken so I can find the corresponding time for the time lapse march video and see how many people were still on Pennsylvania Ave and in the square. As soon as I get this info I will pass it on.

Update: Here are some links to others who have done the crowd estimation:
FreeRepublic
Charlie Martin at Pajamas Media