So, Just How Many Attended Beck's Rally?

Glenn Beck himself estimated the number of people at yesterday’s “Restoring Honor” rally at between 300,000 and 650,000. But we may never get an official answer, thanks to the politically charged nature of the question, CNN reports. The network sums up some of the wildly varied estimates:

• CBS News: Commissioned AirPhotosLive.com, which estimated the crowd at 87,000. With a 9,000-person margin of error, the real number could be anywhere between 78,000 and 96,000.
• NBC Nightly News: “Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands.”
• ABC News: “More than 100,000 people.”

• National Parks Service: According to Chuck Todd, that organization’s estimate was 300,000 to 325,000.
• Fox News: Citing organizers, Beck’s own network estimated the crowd at “over 500,000.”
• Michele Bachmann: “We're not going to let anyone get away with saying there were less than a million here today—because we were witnesses.”
• New York Times: Noted that officials don’t make “controversial” crowd estimates, but acknowledged that “by any measure it was a large turnout.”

For Beck's post-rally thoughts, click here.
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