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Reporting from Washington -- More than 1 million spectators convened on the National Mall to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office Tuesday, but it was unclear if the crowd surpassed the record thought to have been set at Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 inauguration. Though early estimates ranged ...
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Inaugural crowd: 1 million and what?
The Swamp —
... Washington events, is expected to provide an estimate this week, a spokesman said.
Johnson's inaugural crowd was estimated at 1.2 million.
Counting crowds is an inexact and controversial science, and experts cautioned that it would be difficult to quickly calculate the size of the Obama gathering.
"A million rolls off the tongue very easily, but most people have no idea what it really looks like," McPhail said.
See the rest of the report on the inaugural crowd count in Tribune newspapers and here in the Swamp: ...
The difficulty of determining how many people saw the inauguration of Barack Obama
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... Let's break this down a bit. Washington's Metro subway service was expecting huge crowds, and there were warnings that Metro might be too crowded. Yet Metrorail had logged in 545,000 passengers before noon on Tuesday. One of the subway lines shut down around 9:30 a.m. and again it was reported that many of those stuck chose to avoid the Metro and walk. ...
Obama’s “Historic” Inaugural Draws Less than One Millon People
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... It’s fun watching the “news” media as they keep spinning this story. The L.A. Times is now left with this headline: “A record crowd for inauguration? Hard to say” as Obama’s crowd does not seem to measure up to the all time high set for LBJ’s big day in 1965. Considering how the ...
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 1/23/2009 — 1.8 million were on hand to witness Obama's Inauguration.
(CNN) –A record crowd lined the National Mall and parade route on Inauguration Day, Washington officials said Thursday.
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New political era? Same as the old one - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 1/29/2009 — Reporting from Washington -- Democrats talked about the jobs to come from modernizing the electric grid, weatherizing homes, and repairing roads and bridges. Republicans too had ideas for reviving the economy, focusing on tax cuts and carefully ...
The union way up - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 1/26/2009 — At the center of this virtuous circle were unions. In 1955, more than a third of working Americans belonged to one. Unions gave them the bargaining leverage they needed to get the paychecks that kept the economy going. So many Americans were ...
Crowd more than a million, may be record
chicagobreakingnews.com 1/21/2009 — Though early estimates Tuesday ranged as high as 2 million, satellite images of Obaam's swearing-in suggested the actual size of the throng may have been closer to half that, according to Clark McPhail, a sociologist who has been analyzing crowds on ...
Obama the centrist? - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 1/30/2009 — Point: Hugh Hewitt Our back-and-forth has been fun as they always are, Susan (to readers: professor Estrich and I have debated in a variety of college and other public settings, and she once rose to my defense in front of an angry crowd of very lefty ...
How Big Will Obama's Inauguration Crowd Be? Very!: Politics and Power
vanityfair.com 1/10/2009 — Three weeks ago The Washington Post, with the help of the Secret Service and various bean-counters around town, knocked him down with the headline: INAUGURATION DAY CROWD ESTIMATE REDUCED BY HALF . By that time, of course, The Post was cutting in half ...
Republicans step up criticism of Obama - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 1/26/2009 — Reporting from Washington -- Republicans signaled Sunday that they would not be daunted by President Obama's soaring approval ratings, criticizing his proposed $825-billion economic stimulus plan, his strategy for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, ...
The union way up - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 1/26/2009 — At the center of this virtuous circle were unions. In 1955, more than a third of working Americans belonged to one. Unions gave them the bargaining leverage they needed to get the paychecks that kept the economy going. So many Americans were ...
Inauguration: Looking back at yesterday —
First Read 1/21/2009
Pretty much every newspaper in the U.S. -- as well as a majority of newspapers in the world -- has Obama's inauguration on the cover :
The Washington Post’s Balz writes, “Obama's somber address -- and his exhortation to the country to pull ...
Changing of the guard at the DNC —
CNN Political Ticker 1/21/2009
Obama tapped Kaine to head the DNC.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — There's a changing of the guard Wednesday as the Democratic Party holds its annual winter meeting.
Democratic National Committee members are expected to elect Virginia Governor Tim Kaine ...
First thoughts: Obama gets to work —
First Read 1/21/2009
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Obama gets to work: In his first full day as president, Barack Obama participates in a prayer service this morning at Washington’s National Cathedral. He also will sign a few executive orders, ...
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