Comments on: Estimating the Tea Party Numbers (Update: Is 800,000 Unreasonable?)

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:46:20 +0000

If the "silent majority" doesn't speak up, then they don't count.

By: Player

Player — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:54:18 +0000

600,000 is not even 1% of the US population. This is all media hype instead of a movement. Most of the silent majority dont't agree with these tactics and ugly behavior.

By: iPandora » They Want What We Got

iPandora » They Want What We Got — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:10:56 +0000

[...] the Tea Parties pulling together nearly a million people on a work day, CNN and it’s sycophants quick to say all those involved were part of [...]

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:31:05 +0000

Okay, so 30 in Gadsden. And 15,000 in Atlanta. How many Gadsdens does it take to get to an average of 500 from there?

San Antonio had about 15,000 also. How many Gadsdens?

Houston had over 7,000. Denver about 5,000. Same question.

It's okay to use a calculator.

Seriously, the math here isn't difficult. If it were, I couldn't do it. You do have to let go of the talking points long enough to do it, though.

By: Don W

Don W — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:57:33 +0000

In my hometown of Gadsden, AL 30 people showed up — population is 60K. Newberg, OR reports "less than a hundred" — population 20,000. Sorry, your formula doesn't hold water.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:15:00 +0000

There were 8500 confirmed in Houston. That is just people who signed in. Many did not because the firemarshal had to close Jones Plaza because no one else could safely fit so thousands were on the sidewalks and other areas surrounding Jones Plaza. In San Antonio there were over 15,000.

By: Willie Stubbs

Willie Stubbs — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:30:40 +0000

There were more like 2000+ tea parties. When you take into consideration that some were well over 10,000 in attendance it is safe to assume an average of 1,000 per event. That would be 2 million people turning out in the middle of the week on a workday. That is phenomenal! Usually if a business receives one letter of complaint they figure that 25000 people feel the same way. Let's be really conservative and say only 100 people felt like protesting, but stayed home or had to work (to pay their taxes no less). That would be 200 million disgruntled Americans, but really who's counting anyway? I'd like actual numbers from all 2000+ cities.

By: lh

lh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:42:23 +0000

In Bishop, CA we had about 30 but the traffic driving by on Main St. was very supportive. We even had positive media coverage by Ch 33.

There were thousands of small communities that also had demonstrations.