I live about twenty minutes outside of D.C. There were millions of tourists here for the inauguration. Now, while I understand why people wanted to see it (first black President, change, etc) the majority of them ended up standing in sub freezing weather on the mall for hours packed like sardines to watch on jumbo screen tvs. Seems kinda dumb to me... and people paid $1000's to rent rooms for a week or even a few days there.
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