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Fancy idea, how about power to the people...
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That was 6-10million at 600 cities across 60 countries.
Yesterday day was 11million at 2000 locations in 1 country.
Think they have, easily.
Right on! Glad to see that!
Can you cite the source of your numbers regarding yesterday? Estimates I have seen range from 4-6M.
Also, I don't really mean to quibble, but my point is I have been here before. Unless protest continues to grow I fear we are in the same situation that happened under Bush - some protest then everything proceeds as expected.
Even if these protests were somewhat bigger than the Iraq war ones, we have no idea how big they need to be to actually change things because we haven't seen that happen in the past few decades.
ACLU put the estimate at more than 5 million, 50501 said 4-6 million, but that was based on their protests organized alone. There were many, many, many more that weren't run by 50501.
ANP gave the 11m figure yesterday.
A couple of towns near me had both a 1.5% and a 2% turnout, but a lot of small towns had as high as possibly 50%.
It's stupid hard to estimate, but 5m is on the low end (which is the estimated turnout for the Hands Off protest). I've seen 10m, 11m, 12.5m, and one report of up to 34m but that one seems a bit unlikely.