LA newspaper mogul Ken Layne puts attendance figures on the weekend protests against the liberation of Iraq in perspective:
More than 200,000 people showed up for the Daytona race on Sunday, despite the rain. (29 million watched it on teevee.) The car race and the war protest in New York had about the same turnout. I’d say the protest got more news coverage than Daytona, but that’s okay. If nobody went to the car race, that would be big news.
I wonder how many of the folks who turned out for the Daytona 500 are pro-Saddam? My guess is it would be somewhere close to negative numbers.