Those Record-Breaking Women’s Marches Drew A Ridic 1 In 100 Americans

Saturday’s Women’s March was big. 

Big enough to unite people everywhere from the US to Australia to Iraq to Antarctica. Big enough to draw every goddamn celebrity alive (plus a few deceased) from the looks of things. 

And, while we didn’t know exact figures at the time, it was easily a fuckload bigger than the turnout for President Whatshisface’s inauguration.

Seen at #womensmarch pic.twitter.com/kxPtmPMkIc

— CK ?????????????? (@cmkinmia) January 23, 2017

Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017

Now, given a day or so to aggregate data from the US demonstrations, a political science professor from the University of Connecticut has found that more than one in every 100 Americans turned up to march for women and condemn their terrifying new President.

Working with international relations professor Erica Chenoweth from the University of Denver, professor Jeremy Pressman estimated that 3,341,823 to 4,611,782 people turned up. And as Pressmen said, with the US population currently estimated at 323,127,513, that’s over one in 100, folks:

Now, Christ knows how much work went into this research, which is technically still a work in progress. The team drew on reports from every one of the 526 different US marches, ranging everywhere from the main one — Washington, D.C., which drew a turnout of over 500,000, to Wichita Falls, Texas’ reported 150 protestors. 

Thank you to every single person who joined us in the streets yesterday. #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/a0vebWEDVl

— Women’s March (@womensmarch) January 22, 2017

But as impressive as Saturday’s numbers were, they’re by no means the end of the movement. As the great Emily Ratajkowski stressed, it’s all hopefully just the beginning.

One of my favorite quotes by Naomi Wolf. Today was important symbolically but tomorrow and all the days after are even more important… pic.twitter.com/rC8gYmNDQY

— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) January 21, 2017