How Many People For Obama?
How likely is it going to be, for 1.5million people to gather for President Obama’s inauguration?
Who can say? IMNSHO the crowd will be a bit smaller, but around the same order of magnitude. Check what Clark McPhail, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had to say a few years back to Salon.com:
The counting formula divides the mall into eight panels and measures the square footage of each. For really huge [gatherings], aerial photographs are necessary to determine how much space is occupied […] A crowd of 500,000, he says, would [fill] all eight panels, stretching from the Capitol Building to the Lincoln Memorial, or from Third Street to 14th Street […]
It is therefore not too much of a stretch of one’s imagination to think of a million people in the Mall on January 20, 2009.
Written by omnologos
2008/Nov/24 at 22:29:57
Tagged with Barack Obama, Inauguration, U.S. President
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Maurizio - Omnologos 
That one in the interest of saving money plus the fact that we are at war should just put his hand on the bible in front of the camera and broadcast it on you tube.
ahrcanum
2008/Nov/25 at 00:48:49