FYI: Indy Media put the body count at 400 at Thurs' counter-inaugral protest in SC; The Sentinel 300, KPFA News 250. If the count was taken at the pre-march assembly at the steps of the county building, it would have been a fairly easy task to get right. I was thinking of making a count myself but left it at a approximation of a few hundred. I think it is important both from the standpoint of fairness and accuracy in reporting but also to get proper credit for expression of anti-war sentiment.
Crowd estimation at demonstrations has been a contested subject since the Viet Nam era where the variance in totals of rally organizers, the police and mainstream media was huge, with each group having their reasons for spinning the numbers up or down.