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 CP> >That's odd; I walked through and around crowds there for almost
 CP> >two hours and I didn't see any evidence whatsoever that signatures
 CP> >were being collected. If someone would put me in touch with NOW
 CP> 
 CP> Okay, okay! I wasn't at the Ellipse before the march, when, I'm
 CP> told, the signatures were collected. I did view the crowd from
 CP> the Washington Monument grounds, but spent most of my time
 CP> at the other end of the march.

I was there at the beginning, when signatures were being collected. I also
saw signatures being collected throughout the march. If someone didn't
see them being collected, that's even *more* evidence that the signature
count was lower than the actual count.

I was near the end of the march, and was stalled on 17th street for over 
an hour because there were too many people for us to be able to even move
forward. I was also at the march in '89, and this was substantially more 
people. The difference this time is that they were more spread out.

As a Univ. of Michigan grad who spent many Saturday afternoons in a 
football stadium with 105,000 other people, I can say with some certainty
that (1) the size of the crowd in '89 was substantially larger than the
number of people in the Michigan stadium during a game, and (2) that the
size of the crowd last week was substantially larger than in '89.

Metro ridership figures are one of the best for something like this, since
it's a definitive figure, and is easily compared to other weekends. There
were also plenty of people who showed up on foot (like me) because they
lived or were staying nearby, or who got dropped off by buses.