John Stewart and The Daily Show is holding a Rally to Restore Sanity in DC on October 10th, 2010. I think this is a very smart move.

In the case of other recent political rallies, such as the Tea Party rallies, or those political rallies that want to pretend they aren’t political rallies, the turnouts are not that great.  The Tea Party officially has only 67,000 members.  Surely there are orders of magnitude more moderate voters in the United States.

I suppose what appeals to me the most is that the Rally to Restore Sanity, while being political, casts a wide net. The organizers state:

Ours is a rally for the people who’ve been too busy to go to rallies, who actually have lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs) — not so much the Silent Majority as the Busy Majority. If we had to sum up the political view of our participants in a single sentence… we couldn’t. That’s sort of the point.

And who exactly should participate?

We’re looking for the people who think shouting is annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your throat; who feel that the loudest voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get heard; and who believe that the only time it’s appropriate to draw a Hitler mustache on someone is when that person is actually Hitler. Or Charlie Chaplin in certain roles.

If nothing else it will be good to compare the size of the crowd that this rally draws and see who indeed is in the majority. As a side note, you should definitely not attend the other rally that is going on in DC the same day.