Trump "Hands off" protests fizzle rather than sizzle

I don't know if they're paid or not, but I do know when you look over the crowd size, and use Google maps, etc., to estimate the size of the area they are in you can make a reasonable estimate of the crowd size by using 1 to 2 square yards per person. You can go down to about .25 square yards for a dense--close to shoulder to shoulder--crowd. That's about an 18" square area for one person.




Event organizers will almost always overestimate, often very badly overestimate, crowd size. They have an incentive to do so since a larger crowd equals greater appeal to what the event was doing.
Yeah. A fair number of them are paid protesters.

You will note that the news images are all closeups, to make the crowd look bigger than it really is.
 
Of numbers of protesters.
Well, in the case of the Tucson one, the organizers claim that "15,000 people" showed up for it. This is an absurdly high number compared to the video available of this protest. There was a fraction of that present. I'd say between 2 and 3 thousand. Even 5,000 simply won't jibe with the video available.
 
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