How many people are expected to attend the aipac conference?
http://www.aipac.org/2841.asp The AIPAC Policy Conference is the pro-Israel community’s preeminent annual gathering. The event attracts more than 5,000 community and student activists from all 50 states, and more than half of the Senate, a third of the House of Representatives and countless American and Israeli policymakers and thinkers. This Salon.com article puts 2007 attendance at over 6000. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/16/aipac/print.html Amid an energized and at times almost circuslike atmosphere, just about everyone in attendance shared two main preoccupations: the 2008 U.S. presidential election and confronting Iran. And this year’s conference saw record attendance: more than 6,000 people, coming from every state in the country and exceeding last year’s crowd of around 5,00
