9-12 March Attendance Figures

If you're reading this to find out how many attended, I can't give you a concrete figure. We will run down the different estimates, though.

First, though, I'd like you to watch this time-lapse video of the gathering and then the march, so you can make your own estimates. The video shows a three-hour stretch of time in about 40 seconds, and starts as the people first started to gather before marching. You make your own judgment on crowd size.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sjvc6baor8&feature=player_embedded






But here are the estimates.

At the bottom end, we have Davis Shuster saying there were 50,000 attendees.
http://twitter.com/DavidShuster/status/3942120853

Matt Welch, of Reason.com, says that attendance was "a healthy six figures" present.
http://reason.com/blog/show/136041.html

There was a report of 2 million credited to ABC, but ABC says they never said it.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/protest-crowd-size-estimate-falsely-attributed-abc-news/story?id=8558055

ABC News did quote unidentified "city officials" to provide a 60,000 - 75,000 estimate.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/marching-down-pennsylvania-avenue.html

By any measure, though, the New York Times says the crowd was far larger than anybody expected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/politics/13protestweb.html?_r=2

"But the magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise, with throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capitol Hill for more than three hours."