Over 200K Attended Sanity Rally
The Hill reports:
More than 200,000 people showed up Saturday on the National Mall for the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear."
The crowd reached about 215,000, according to an estimate commissioned by CBS News on Sunday.
The company AirPhotosLive.com based the rally attendance on photos taken from above the Mall, with a margin of error of plus or minus 10 percent, CBS reported today.
Rally participants such as Jon Stewart estimated the tally at about 150,000, although he joked that 10 million people were in attendance. His cohort in political-comedy crime, Stephen Colbert, jokingly made early predictions of 6 billion, roughly 700 million short of the world's estimated population of 6.69 billion, according to World Bank figures.
Officials at Metro, Washington's public transportation system, said by 3 p.m. Saturday about 369,900 people had used the system, well ahead of a typical Saturday that sees usage between 325,000 and 350,000. Final numbers are expected Monday.
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