CBS has estimated the crowd size at yesterday’s “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington at 87,000. Anyone who’s been to an SEC football game knows that’s poppycock. Look at the photos and try to imagine that crowd fitting into Georgia’s Sanford Stadium or Auburn’s Jordan-Hare. Not possible.
The firm CBS used has not experience in gauging crowd size, but they reported the findings anyway. Meanwhile, Charlie Martin, the technology editor of Pajamas Media took an actual scientific approach to the task. He estimates that the ground covered by the crowd is 197,000 square meters. If you accept CBS’s number, then there was less than one person standing in every 9-foot square. Anyone who has ever been in a large crowd knows that’s just nonsense.
Martin points out that a dense crowd has about 10 people per square meter, so even a conservative estimate of that density blows CBS out of the water.
So these should be considered very conservative estimates, especially as we think about the lower percentages. The total could easily be, say, twice the 75 percent estimate, or about 330,000 people.
