"Though early estimates Tuesday ranged as high as 2 million, satellite images of Obama's swearing-in suggested the actual size of the throng may have been closer to half that, said Clark McPhail, a sociologist who has been analyzing crowds on the mall since the 1960s."
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/chi-crowds-tabjan21,0,2267676.story
1965: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1.2 m
1973: Richard Nixon, 300,000
1977: Jimmy Carter, 350,000
1981: Ronald Reagan, 500,000
1989: George H.W. Bush, 300,000
1993: Bill Clinton, 800,000
2001: George W. Bush: 500,000
jayb posted something about california turning into mexico. people argued from their usual pulpits on tangents to the topic.
then you changed it into a snuff thread.