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Nov 20, 2008 | 7:01 am

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Originally Posted by MrAOK

I live in dc. I was just curious to look. There are wild estimates about the number of people coming. First it was 1 million, then 1 million to 2 million, then up to 4 million.

But there is nothing to base the numbers on. Once you get past counting the hotel rooms, it's all wild ... guessing

Just like they predicted 1 million in Chicago on election night. It was then 500,000 and then 150,000 actually turned up. The media hypes it up (along with your airfare).

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