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Re: Storming the Capitol

A bunch of sites are highlighting the arrests from the health care protest today:

Roll Call.

Talking Points Memo.

This was not the 1968 Democratic Convention. Phil's photo basically indicated the makeup of the crowd -- a lot of middle class families.

The size estimates have also varied widely. NBC put the number at 3,000-5,000, while Talking Points Memo reported 8,000. I would put the number at around 20,000, or in the tens of thousands -- 99.9 percent of which went home without any incident with police officers.

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Brian O'Connell is the Collegiate Network fellow at The American Spectator and former editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review.

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/05/re-storming-the-capitol

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