Washington (CNN) - If you've ever tried Thurs guess How about jelly beans are inside a huge jar, you have some idea what it's like to Estimate Crowds at massive Washington DC rallies.
But the stakes are far in Washington Higher, with the Estimates Politically Charged and highly controversial. U.S. Park Police, burned by previous controversies, Makes no longer the truth. So there are no official Estimates of Crowd size at events on the National Mall.
And Saturday's "Restoring Honor" rally with Fox News and radio show host Glenn Beck was no Different. There was wide disagreement of just how big the Crowd near the Lincoln Memorial was, Followed by Claims Estimates That some low-balled the size.
CBS News got a Scientific Approach, commissioning a Crowd Estimate by the company AirPhotosLive.com. The network Reported That AirPhotosLive the Crowd Estimated at 87.000 people. But That They noted with a margin of error of 9.000, "Between 78.000 and 96.000 attended the rally."
The NBC Nightly News, CP, the number of people in attendance as "tens, Perhaps Hundreds of Thousands."
ABCNews.com Reported "the rally has attracted more than just 100.000 people."
Fox News, citing Organizers, aired a banner characterizing it this way: "Crowd Attending BECK RALLY ESTIMATED AT OVER 500.000."
The Washington Post noted That Beck Told the Crowd Heard That they had "it was Between 300.000 and 500.000."
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