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Not marginalizing anything. Why are you attempting to inflate the attendance numbers ?3,000 attended the one in Salem, and "more than 1,000" were in Portland, according to local tv station,
Thousands in Oregon protest taxes and bailouts, tea party-style - Oregon, Northwest and National Politics & Elections News - Oregonlive.com
2,000 were at Portland according to a couple faithful enthusiastic Portland OR Tea Party attendees who said the plaza was full and that is about all it could hold.
Portland, Oregon Tea Party
That ain't 5,000 - 7,000, no matter how many times you say it. Your pic show what I estimate to be 2,000. The wide angle lens doesn't add people to the event.
I've been on stage at enough concerts and rallies where I knew the attendance.
That crowd isn't anywhere close to 5,000.
Maybe if you pumped in more silicon and stuffed them into a lift brassiere you can make the Tea Parties seem larger, and hide that they were half fake.
Thanks to modern technology, anybody can find muiltilple sources that describe each and every Tea Party.
1,000 - 3,000 were at Portland Oregon. Not 5,000 - 7,000.
Glad you had a good time. How many folks were there to protest government taxes and spending, and how many to protest Obama's election/heritage/birth certificate/"Socialism-fascism-communism" ?
Or are they the same thing
OregonLive is the Oregonian newspaper. I already addressed this. Look at my photos... Look at the video. They say only 1000 where in DT Portland and 2000 in Salem. That's not counting the other TWENTY events across Oregon.
You can try and marginalize us all you want. You will show yourself to be the fool.
Salem Oregon:
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What's in it for YOU ? Is you ego attached to this ? You get a commission ?
The pictures and video show that there were not 5,000 - 7,000 people in that plaza, at that event. Like I said, I have been to enough events where attendance was paid and counted through tickets, and the video and pics of Portland Tea Party show that there were nowhere near 5,000 in attendance. 3,000 at the most, according to the video.
Nationwidel, attendance to the heavily promoted Tea Parties (FOX's air time devoted to pumping up and promoting the Tea Parties alone was worth $100 million in ad space) attracted less than 2% of American registered voters, (if you accept the higher attendance estimates). In addition, the attendance represented the existing conservative movement, that tiny sliver of unhappy white conservatives who want to "overthrow the people" with whom they have a political disagreement.
The number of people at Tea Parties if they all voted, would still have an insignificant effect upon the outcome of elections.
Face it -
Conservatives need a whole new product line. Trying to sell the same old tattered wares that America is very familiar with after years of those flawed failed policies, won't rejuvenate the party or those policies, and isn't attraxcting any new converts to the cause. I've been in marketting for decades, and the Conservative line of policies and personages has run its course. Played out. Unwanted. Its what we'd call a "highly specific niche" product. It has No mass appeal.
That lack of attractive product line ( as in "policies") is not AMERICA's problem,
that is the problem with the Conservatives.
Do conservatives and Tea Partiers get the feeling that they are just spieling their lines and policies ONLY to each other, that no new 'customers' are coming in their stotre, even to look around ?