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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCrowd 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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DonViejo
Jan 2017
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,493 posts)1. And weren't the numbers down significantly in
2013 compared to 2009?
kentuck
(115,407 posts)2. Wow!
Quite a comparison!
deminks
(11,526 posts)3. Or the March for Women's Lives in 2004
The one never covered by the MEdia.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016163808#post10
Princess Turandot
(4,917 posts)4. 2009 Looking west from the viewing stand:

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