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In a time when it is likely that more people than ever were able to watch the President’s Inauguration and Inaugural Address via the internet (so much so that people were urged to stay off their cell phones during the address and my own school throtled bandwidth to handle the extra traffic of multiple incoming video streams), it is truly remarkable that record-shattering numbers of people actually attended the ceremony in person.

The last Presidential Inauguration drew 300, 000 people, while the record was held by the 1965 Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, with a crowd of 1.2 million people. Initial attendence estimates of today’s Inauguration exceed 2 million people.

What’s interesting, is that it seems like people, and I am talking about people at-large, are beginning to care about politics; people are beginning to care about what is happening to them and to us. People care about who their President is.

“the time has come to set aside childish things”