🧐 Hard to believe yesterday’s #Anchorage #rally was pegged at only 1000+. My guess from being at one of our biggest rallies this century was 2500-3000’ish. Did anyone make an effort at estimating the turnout? #HandsOff #PeopleB4Billionaires #AlaskaSky - ThreadSky

lesgara-inak.bsky.social • 55 days ago

🧐 Hard to believe yesterday’s #Anchorage #rally was pegged at only 1000+. My guess from being at one of our biggest rallies this century was 2500-3000’ish. Did anyone make an effort at estimating the turnout?
#HandsOff
#PeopleB4Billionaires
#AlaskaSky

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A crowd of demonstrators marched through downtown Anchorage on Saturday, carrying signs and rallying against actions taken by President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk to reshape the federal government. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

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emmyzartman.bsky.social•55 days ago

I counted at least 2,000 in ANC.

lesgara-inak.bsky.social•55 days ago

If you’re comfortable, maybe reply to the ADN post.

emmyzartman.bsky.social•53 days ago

I saw that they updated their number yesterday to 3,500.🤷‍♀️

lesgara-inak.bsky.social•53 days ago

We all nagged:). So they asked someone who counted at the rally

alaskanime.bsky.social•55 days ago

450 people turned out in Wasilla alone, there's no way that crowd was only "1000" people

lesgara-inak.bsky.social•55 days ago

Agree. Tho
I’m pretty decent at estimating crowds in the hundreds, not thousands.

reesespiecesak6.bsky.social•52 days ago

From other estimates the numbers were much higher than 1K. More like 4K.

squidak.bsky.social•55 days ago

At least 2000 in Town Square. I'm guessing the largest protest EVER in AK. Can you think of any larger?

lesgara-inak.bsky.social•55 days ago

We’ve had some large ones. On choice, high school students who put together one on gun, safety, and recall Dunleavy. All the last few years. But maybe 🤷🏻‍♂️.

2manycats.bsky.social•55 days ago

MSM seems to be very conservative in their estimates. The Homer rally was reported as "over 400," when the actual number was 530 per the folks who actually counted the crowd.

lesgara-inak.bsky.social•55 days ago

Sometimes undercounting is a mistake. Sometimes it’s an agenda. I trust Loren’s fairness, but know nothing about his editor in a Binkley owned paper.

msttfn.bsky.social•55 days ago

I've heard estimates of 1500-2000. I thought it was higher as well. A previous one was estimated at 1,000 and this one looked like more than twice as large.

akskierken.bsky.social•55 days ago

In Fairbanks we had a guy who did multiple counts, block by block, so now he has solid data to estimate based on # of blocks filled. (120 per block along Cushman street, when in a single row, in case you’re wondering)

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