Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Chicago immigration March: How many? Time for Marathon Pundit's Law

How many people showed up at yesterday's Second City version of the May 1 March? That depends on who you ask.

According to the March organizers, the number of protesters was 700,000. At this point, I want to invoke what I call Marathon Pundit's Law of Rally Attendance.

That law is, take whatever crowd estimate given by a rally organizer, then slice it in half. You then will have a much more accurate crowd count.

Along that line of thinking, the Chicago Police figured the count to be around 400,000.

Case closed.

No comments: