Putting Tea Parties into perspective
The "Tea Parties" were nationally promoted events, with Fox practically being a sponsor, with both magazines and bloggers hyping them. They were the first chance for anti-Obama people to come together and shout their protests to the whole world. They attracted all types of the non-religious conservatives, from Norquist to Paulistas as well as the mainstream.
Their supporters had been pushing them for months, and liberal blogs and commentators, puzzled by what these people were trying to say, helped get the word out. This would really matter!
Estimates of attendance across the country has ranged from 25000 to 100000.
Class A Minor League baseball is the lowest level of professional baseball. The players are young, usually unknown to fans who don't assiduously follow the game, or readers of local newspapers. The games are played in small cities and usually don't get much publicity out of the area -- and none nationally. A team located near a major league city gets it's games barely mentioned in two inch stories. Wednesday was an average day, most of the 'home openers' were completed, schools are not yet out in the areas.
There were 36 games played in 29 parks on Wednesday -- one game was rained out, there were seven doubleheaders. Total Attendance?
Totalling the figures given in the box scores: 58,722.
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