01-23-2017, 11:25 AM
(01-23-2017, 12:11 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Well to be fair. Friday is a work day. Little wonder there were more present for Obama's inauguration.
There's also the fact that the DC metro area has gotten increasingly more liberal. I was watching Meet The Press on Sunday and they showed how, since the Reagan era, more and more counties around DC are turning blue, meaning that the folks that voted for him are living farther away, most likely.
Plus, as one conservative commentator said on Twitter, "let's not kid ourselves, Obama's 2009 inauguration was an historic event, it being the first black president. Another old white guy being sworn in is not going to draw the crowds as much."
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
