Population of Washington, D.C.: 572,059
Number of people attending Obama’s inauguration: 2,000,000+
Wow.
Update: The Toronto Star created a word cloud from Obama’s acceptance speech, and it turns out he didn’t use the word “evildoer” a single time.
Image via New York Times.
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1 B // Jan 20, 2009 at 11:14 pm
At Sunday’s concert they were expecting 250,000 and there were 500,000.
They were expecting 2,000,000 at inauguration and there were closer to 4,000,000.
I didn’t meet a single person from DC though. Haha!
2 mark // Jan 21, 2009 at 1:09 am
Wow — the Chicago Sun-Times reports that estimates are now as high as five million.
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