Open Thread

by Mary

[Apologies once more for being MIA. Work continues to be pretty intense these days. Thanks Oly Mike for picking up the slack!]

About that Beck rally?

Size of crowd attending to hear Martin Luther King, Jr in 1963: 250,000

Size of crowd attending to hear Glenn Beck in 2010: 87,000

Population of the USA in 1963: 189,241,798

Population of the USA in 2010: 310,110,000

Which one had a more powerful pull on the imagination of the country?