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On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Adam Procter wrote:
> Could be -- I remember a news story from before the rally where somebody
> with either College Democrats or the Obama campaign said the south quad
> could hold 10,000 people "uncomfortably". Can't seem to dig it up at the
> moment, though. I think the 40,000 figure is from the Obama campaign,
> and the cops haven't provided any estimates that I know of so it's hard
> to say for certain.
That's all I could find -- that the Obama campaign estimated 40,000, but
groups always overstate the sizes of the crowds they draw, sometimes by a
factor of two or more. I think the question the Obama campaign is
answering is "what's the largest number we can give without being
ridiculed?"
Mike
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