Women's March Against Trump Outnumbers Inauguration

[_Gunnar]

According to Trump, despite incontrovertible photographic documentary evidence, the Media are lying about the small size of the inauguration crowds. Thus further confirming either his debilitating disconnect from reality and/or that he is a pathological liar.

[_Jersey Girl]

The crowd size (because size matters) I quickly found the numbers for GWB's first inauguration, 300K.

What are the estimated crowd sizes in terms of round numbers for Obama's first and Trumps?

[_Jersey Girl]

Never mind, just got this off a search result.

Photos of the event taken from the Washington Monument suggest the crowd size was more in keeping with the early estimate by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Activities, which, heading into today’s ceremony, had forecast 700K-900K would attend Trump’s inauguration.

The top photo is of the crowd on the National Mall when the inauguration of this country’s first black President, Barack Obama, was attended by an estimated 1.8M people in January 2009. The lower photo shows the crowd for Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017. Both of the photos taken by a pole camera at the top of the Washington Monument were snapped shortly before noon.

An estimated 1.8 million people attended Obama’s 2009 inauguration; about 1M attended his second, in 2013.

If the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Activities’ crowd estimate holds up, it would compare favorably with previous presidents. George with. Bush’s two inaugurations collected crowds estimated a 300K and 400K, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. And Bill Clinton clocked estimated crowds of 800K in 1993 but just 250K in ’97.

[_Jersey Girl]

How they figure it. Pretty interesting!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ ... ze/513938/

[_Gunnar]

It was still a large crowd, of course (more than 10 times the entire population of the city I live in), and can be considered small only by comparison to the even larger crowds of Obama's inaugurations, but that was enough for Trump to consider it an intolerable affront to his fragile, narcissistic ego.

[_Gunnar]

ha ha ha - Trump motivated more women (and effeminate men) to get out on January 21st than Hillary could motivate on November 08th

Are you suggesting or implying that only effeminate men would be outraged by Trump's behavior towards women such as groping their genitals and breasts and barging in on beauty contestants' dressing rooms unannounced while they changing clothes or even nude?

[_EAllusion]

I don't think these crowd sizes matter much at all. The size of the protests probably does say something about the level of discontent with Trump's victory on the left (extreme). It probably represents the rebirth of the liberal protest movement that died when Obama became president (despite many of the things they allegedly were protesting continuing in the Obama presidency). Otherwise, crowd size is not that big of a deal as crowds are an imperfect measure of public opinion.

The Sean Spicer prepared statement about crowd sizes is relevant as it appears to be an Orwellian attempt to further train loyalists to believe Trump over their lying eyes. That doesn't bode well for the future.

[_Kevin Graham]

Trump motivated more women ... to get out on January 21st than Hillary could motivate on November 08th

But she still got 3 million more people to vote for her than he did.

And probably more than 10 million more women to vote for her.

[_Gunnar]

How they figure it. Pretty interesting!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ ... ze/513938/

That was indeed interesting. Thanks for that link!

[_Gunnar]

I don't think these crowd sizes matter much at all. The size of the protests probably does say something about the level of discontent with Trump's victory on the left (extreme). It probably represents the rebirth of the liberal protest movement that died when Obama became president (despite many of the things they allegedly were protesting continuing in the Obama presidency). Otherwise, crowd size is not that big of a deal as crowds are an imperfect measure of public opinion.

The Sean Spicer prepared statement about crowd sizes is relevant as it appears to be an Orwellian attempt to further train loyalists to believe Trump over their lying eyes. That doesn't bode well for the future.

Good points!