Clinton Attendance Rally: Me and My Shadow?

I was wondering how many people attended the Hillary Clinton rally in Sioux Falls Thursday. KJAM provides no numbers, but says the crowd was "exceptionally lively." (Hmm... could some objective professional journalists tell me what that means? Is that exceptionally lively for a gathering at a hangar? Exceptionally lively for a campaign rally? Exceptionally lively for Midwestern German-Norwegian Lutherans?)

Here are some crowd estimates:

1. KELO: 900
2. that Sioux Falls paper*: 1000
3. Rapid City Journal: 1000
   
4. HillaryClinton.com: 2000

Next the Clinton campaign will be telling us that it takes 2,209 delegates, not 2,025, to win the Democratic nomination.

Clinton's math is a little better on her claim that the summer gas tax holiday could save truckers $2 billion. The Alaska Trucking Association (that's what Google gave me) says "the nation's 3.5 million truck drivers are on pace to spend a record $135 billion on diesel fuel this year, up $22 billion from 2007." $135 billion, divided by $4 a gallon, divided by 4 (summer is one fourth of the year), multiplied by 24.4 cents per gallon (that's the federal tax on diesel), equals $2 billion dollars and spare change.

This assumes, of course, that Big Oil would actually pass on the gas-tax holiday savings to consumers... and not pass on the cost of the windfall profits tax Clinton would use to cover the $9 billion the federal highway trust fund stands to lose.

*Yes, that Sioux Falls paper, which continues to run advertisements for a porn shop run by a man whom a judge believes stalked and harassed his female employees. Yuck.