Mark Kelly

How Many People Attended the September 12 March in DC?

User Image tlambert | September 21, 2009
Tim Blair disputes Charles Johnson's estimate of the size of the September 12 rally. Johnson wrote: Here's the Washington DC Metrorail service information for Saturday, September 12, 2009: September 12, 2009: Metrorail: 437,624 Comparable Metrorail Ridership 1 Year Ago: 362,773 The difference between these two figures is -- 74,851. Oddly enough, this almost exactly matches the unofficial estimate given by a Washington DC Fire Department spokesman, who estimated the crowd at 60,000 to 70,000 people. Blair writes comparing September 12, 2008, to September 12, 2009, won't yield reliable…