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Crowd estimates are always unreliable, but Obama is said to have drawn 1.8 million people on Tuesday, which, if true, is an all-time record.

"Crowd estimates are notoriously difficult to do well or accurately," said Mr. Kavanagh, who added that the New York Police Department stopped releasing estimates of crowds at events like rallies and concerts in Central Park.

"Then why," Mr. Rivkin asked, "aren't there two million, three million Jews surrounding Yerushalayim tonight, if it's so serious?" Crowd estimates are always inflated and deflated by politics, but this appeared to be one of the largest Israeli rallies alongside the Old City walls in decades.

Other crowd estimates were lower.

The crowd estimate was provided by Deputy Chief Dennis Lesniak of the Chicago police, which is controlled by Mayor Daley.

Even if the campaign's crowd estimate was exaggerated, the rally on Sunday night was Mr. Navalny's largest so far.

Officials do not make crowd estimates because they are unreliable and can be controversial, but event organizers put the number of attendees at 500,000; NBC News said it was closer to 300,000, but by any measure it was a large turnout.

On this hot day, the cheering crowd -- which Corry estimates was in the thousands -- embraced the message.

The crowd estimate could be much higher a few miles down from Alltel at the Jacksonville Landing, a strip of shops and bars.

A crowd estimated to be hundreds of thousands strong gathered in central Kiev for a third weekend of protests against Mr Yanukovich's decision to reject a pro-EU association pact.

The police estimated the crowd at 8,000, but other estimates were as high as 20,000.