Batesline is blogging from New York City as a Republican delegate. Evidently the convention delegates are well protected from any reality around them.

Did not see a single protester today. Not a one. Some friends went to Columbus Circle to catch the “big” protest and said there were maybe 100 people there.

He may be shocked to read this morning’s headlines.

Hundreds of thousands march against Bush, war

The assemblage, marching in the sweltering August heat, took nearly five hours to file past Madison Square Garden, the convention site in midtown Manhattan. New York police, in keeping with recent policy, refused to offer a crowd estimate. Protest organizers boasted 400,000 people, and several police officers on the scene said there seemed to be more than the predicted 250,000.

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