Comments on: Tea Party Turnout Nationwide

By: Conservatista! » So how many actually attended the Tea Parties?

Conservatista! » So how many actually attended the Tea Parties? — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:03:57 +0000

[...] North Shore Journal has a roundup of some of the more credible estimates. On the high end, over 456K are estimated to have come out. On the low end, about 262K. If we put it somewhere in between those two figures, PJTV and NRO’s figures may prove to be the most accurate. [...]

By: M M

M M — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:20:49 +0000

The ones I know of in MO are not reported on that list. I know of 5 in within a 100 mile area in Arizona that are not listed…with attendance of 6,000+ total. Your numbers are low. There is one photograph, not even the entire crowd in Jefferson MO, that shows more than the 500 listed on that report.
I estimated 1,500,000 but ramussen reports 25% of the entire adult population personally knows a person who attended..That could mean 2,500,000 easily.
There is a photo of the crowd that turned out for Obama Earth Day in Iowa City estimated to be 10,000 and it is miniscule compared to the size of the crowd pictures that were posted for Des Moines Tea Party. There were many many parties with crowds of 1,000 plus..Yakima WA 1,000, Yuma AZ 1500 and the list goes on and on and on… Prescott Valley AZ 3,500.

By: Walt

Walt — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:08:54 +0000

Illinois had far more that 6. Very low on the number.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:57:03 +0000

I have to agree with many of the other responses about the great underrepresentation of Tea Party turnout. In Indiana, the state organizers had 16 confirmed parties. That mean 16 parties actually worked with and communicated to just one organizer. I’m sure there were other parties that were independent of this one organizer. I think the Indiana turnout was probably over 25,000, not the 10,000 you have listed.

By: aaron

aaron — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:09:10 +0000

After doing the calculations myself, by adding up the police attendance statements at the more than 750 tea parties nationwide the total comes out to 2, 700, 000 attendees minimum nationwide.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:05:21 +0000

You show 3 for Louisiana. I know for a fact there were 5 within a 45 mile radius of my city. There were over 500 in a town of just over 15,000. And my city was the smallest of the 5 mentioned above. I have heard there may have been as few as 12 and as many as 20 in Louisiana. The numbers would be somewhere between 12000-18000 for the total count.

By: Karen in Maine

Karen in Maine — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:16:39 +0000

Count for Maine is way low. Bangor Daily News had party in Bangor at 300, and there were two others in Portland and Augusta that had wide publicity, plus several in more rural areas that weren’t as well-publicized.

By: Tea party at the landing today - Jacksonville - Florida (FL) - Page 4 - City-Data Forum

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:30:08 +0000

[...] Posted by cricketfan Here is one such guesstimate (and they are many)… Tea Party Turnout Nationwide | America’s North Shore Journal And in that link, the estimate for the Florida turnout is 10,900, which would seem believable [...]

By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:16:40 +0000

I believe the count for MI is low. There were 5000 in Lansing and 1000 in Troy that I know of and there were many more teaparties held throught the state.

By: Melanie Alto

Melanie Alto — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:41:17 +0000

The number of tea parties in WA state is also low, the WA link at http://www.taxdayteaparty.com lists 30 parties held throughout the state. I only attended the party in Richland, WA so I can’t vouch for any attendence numbers at the other state parties, but the Richland party confirmed 1500 were in attendence at one time, with people coming and going throughout the 3 hour tea party they estimate a total of 2000-2500 in attendence, but are leaving the official count at 1500 so they don’t over-estimate.

By: Party Like It’s 1773! « Bejohngalt’s Blog

Party Like It’s 1773! « Bejohngalt’s Blog — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:40:42 +0000

[...] NUMBERS UPDATE: 551,919! (PJTV) [...]

By: Ellen Mertz

Ellen Mertz — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:13:55 +0000

The Tea Party in Paducah, Kentucky, drew 1500-1700 people. Attendees were a mix of Republican, Democrat, Independent and Libertarian. Crowd was upset about taxes, yes, but more than that, they were upset about the underlying philosophy of collectivism that drives this whole mess we are seeing today.

By: LS

LS — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:03:03 +0000

The tea party in Athens, GA seemed to have about 100 people (personal estimate).

The one out in Oconee County seemed to be even bigger:

http://www.theoconeeleader.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=725

By: Tea Parties: epic fail? « Casualprofundity’s Blog

Tea Parties: epic fail? « Casualprofundity’s Blog — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:28:30 +0000

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By: Tea party at the landing today - Jacksonville - Florida (FL) - Page 3 - City-Data Forum

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:28:14 +0000

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