It wasn’t exactly what we saw in Washington today, but hundreds of public option supporters in three states demonstrated in front of CNN headquarters in support of health care reform with a public option. In New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles, the demonstrators, organized by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks and supported by such liberal advocacy groups as Democracy for America and the Progressive Campaign Change Committee, cited public opinion polls showing overwhelming support of a public insurance option to compete with the private market.

In Los Angeles, about 60 protesters marched at noon outside the CNN building on Sunset Boulevard. Uygur, the chief organizer, said in his remarks that the traditional media has been downplaying support for the public option, which is why they came to CNN to try and force that conversation. “This polls better than anything I’ve ever seen, and they’re not talking about it,” Uygur said to the crowd. “The conservatives who talk about costs are lying. The public option will lower costs.”

Perhaps in contrast to the tea party protest in Washington today, nobody assembled had guns, compared Obama to Hitler or health care reform to the Holocaust, or forgot the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Also notable is the fact that, with hundreds of people protesting at their offices, the masses assembled may have outnumbered CNN’s current viewing audience, if recent ratings numbered are to be believed.