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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Jan 20, 2017, 12:39 PM Jan 2017

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Crowd Baselines

By JOSH MARSHALL Published JANUARY 20, 2017, 9:25 AM EDT

Here are a couple photos that will help put crowd size today in context, after the jump.

And this one.

These are from President Obama's second inauguration, in January 2013.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/crowd-baselines

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Crowd Baselines (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP

And weren't the numbers down significantly in PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2017 #1

Wow! kentuck Jan 2017 #2

Or the March for Women's Lives in 2004 deminks Jan 2017 #3

2009 Looking west from the viewing stand: Princess Turandot Jan 2017 #4

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,848 posts)

1. And weren't the numbers down significantly in

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2017, 12:45 PM

Jan 2017

2013 compared to 2009?

kentuck

(111,079 posts)

2. Wow!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2017, 12:49 PM

Jan 2017

Quite a comparison!

deminks

(11,014 posts)

3. Or the March for Women's Lives in 2004

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2017, 12:51 PM

Jan 2017

The one never covered by the MEdia.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016163808#post10

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)

4. 2009 Looking west from the viewing stand:

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2017, 01:12 PM

Jan 2017

The crowd went a bit past the Washington Monument. The distance from the Monument to the steps of the Capitol is 1.3 miles.

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