[muawiyah]

The escalators they were talking about are those serving the Natinal Mall. That'd be 12th and Penn, L'Enfant Plaza, Smithsonian ~ backing up a quarter to half a mile there are another dozen stations where you could get off and kind of ooze your way toward the Mall.

Two million people would fill the Mall, end to end, and cover Independence and Constitution Avenues.

Three million people will fill all the open space between State Department, the Potomac River, I Street and the Capital front.

Four million will create panic. I don't think they could actually get five million in and out in under 2 or 3 days.

[PapaBear3625]

Four million will create panic. I don't think they could actually get five million in and out in under 2 or 3 days.

Four or five million Obama supporters in a confined space sounds -- "interesting". Best place to be on Jan 20 is far away from DC.

[nina0113]

Four million will create panic. I don't think they could actually get five million in and out in under 2 or 3 days. <

And yet my K Street employer has not conceded the reality that we will not be able to get to work that day. Our office is still expected to be open. I'm hoping common sense sets in sometime before the 20th.

[ml/nj]

Four million will create panic.

Actually there could be quite the panic even if only 250,000 show up when Chief Justice Roberts asks the Kenyan One to see a copy of his birth certificate before he administers the oath.

ML/NJ