Thread: Expert Says Only 800,000 Attended Obama’s 1st Inauguration NOT 1.8 Million; Comparing

Expert Says Only 800,000 Attended Obama’s 1st Inauguration NOT 1.8 Million; Comparing Apples To Oranges

Ryan Saavedra Jan 23rd, 2017 11:51 am



The Science And Politics Of Counting Crowds

Organizers and Politicians have good reason to exaggerate, but new science and technology are starting to provide a much more accurate estimate of how many people actually attend events.

The mainstream media is trying to create a narrative that Donald Trump’s inauguration was a failure by comparing it to Obama’s first inauguration and saying that twice as many people showed up to his inauguration that attended Trump’s inauguration.

In order to better compare both inaugurations, let’s take a look at the facts and let’s also look at the events surrounding both inaugurations.

Crowd Counting Guru Stephen Doig has come forward to offer his insights into the crowd sizes at both inaugurations.

From Fast Company:

Satellites will by flying over Trump’s inauguration, as they did in 2009. Journalism professor Stephen Doig, one of the gurus of crowd counting, used an image from satellite company GeoEye to estimate a crowd of 800,000 people for Obama’s first Inauguration. Official estimates for the event, though, were over twice as high, at 1.8 million, which may actually be impossible, say researchers. DDIS modeled how big a very tightly packed crowd of a million people would stretch back from the Capitol building along the Mall: It would extend across the Potomac River into Virginia.

Attendance at Trump’s inauguration is forecast to be up to 800,000, according to the U.S. Armed Forces Joint Task Force, which supports the ceremony. When final numbers come in, the 800,000 estimated for Trump may also prove wildly optimistic.

Translation? The claims that Obama’s first inauguration drew a crowd of 1.8 million people is fake news at best. It also means that the difference in crowd sizes is significantly smaller than what the mainstream media is reporting. According to the mainstream media Obama had over a million more people attend his inauguration than attended Trump’s inauguration. While Obama’s crowd was bigger, the reality is it was only bigger by a few hundred thousand people, it wasn’t bigger by over a million people.

Comparing Apples To Oranges

There are two very important things to remember when comparing the crowd sizes.

#1 – The Weather Was Different

While Barack Obama’s first inauguration was slightly colder than Donald Trump’s inauguration by roughly 10°F, Obama’s inauguration was bright and sunny.

Trump’s inauguration was anything but bright and sunny, Trump’s inauguration was cloudy and rainy.

Weather plays a factor when people decide to attend an outdoor event.

#2 – Violent Liberals Attacked At Trump’s Inauguration

This can’t be overstated. When Barack Obama held his first inauguration, protesters didn’t burn limo’s, break windows at businesses, hit supporters, and police didn’t have to use percussion grenades. All of these things transpired at Trump’s Inauguration by violent and hypocritical liberals.

More than 200 people were arrested for their violent acts at the Trump Inauguration.

A simple google search for “how many people arrested at Obama’s first inauguration” yielded no arrest numbers in the first few pages. Why is that? Because there were few if any at all.

Trump supporters have been the victims of violent attacks by liberals around the country for many months, people were calling for Trump to be assassinated.

Without question many people were seriously concerned for their safety with these liberals showing up to cause violence. The entire week leading up to the inauguration was filled with warnings that police were expecting a rowdy crowd of protesters.

It is easy to draw the conclusion that many people most likely didn’t attend for the simple fact they were concerned about a potential attack taking place.

Video & Photos

This videos below show explosions taking place to break up violent protesters, it sounds like a war zone.

















http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...pples-oranges/

The gigapixel is very interesting.
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CNN Quietly Releases Updated Pic Showing Trump’s Inaugural Crowd Size Greater than Obama’s 2009 Inaugural Crowd

Jim Hoft Jan 25th, 2017 7:51 am



As we pointed out throughout the months leading up to the election, crowd size matters. President Trump was crushing Hillary Clinton in number of rallies and number of participants at his rallies when compared to Clinton.



These numbers, in part, led to us projecting a Trump win and probable landslide and we were correct. Trump did win in an electoral landslide. Nevertheless, the numbers at the rallies were significantly different between the two candidates and the one with the larger number of participants won the election. (Note Deroy Murdock reported on our rally observations last week).

The media remained silent on the crowd size numbers when it was clear that Trump was crushing Hillary in this area. But late last week the media finally reported that crowd size does matter. CNN (Fake News) reported that President Trump’s crowd size was much smaller than President Obama’s crowd size in 2009, and CNN provided two pictures to show the difference.

However, the pictures in the article show the crowd size for Obama when he was speaking during his 2009 inauguration with the crowd from Trump’s inauguration approximately 3 hours before Trump spoke.

CNN’s report was another of their ‘Fake News’ lies. The photos used in their post were not comparing apples to apples and President Trump’s Press Secretary pointed this out on Saturday in a special press conference. Trump’s crowd was huge and every bit as big as Obama’s crowd in 2009. Also, in CNN’s article they say that Obama had 1.8 million people in 2009. This is now refuted and is more likely closer to 800,000.

Later CNN’s report was proven false by their own reporting. CNN released a gigapixel of President Trump’s Inauguration and the areas they show as empty in their article from their January 21st report were filled to the brim in their more recent picture which was taken at the time of Trump’s speech during the Inauguration ceremony.



If you review the gigapixel closely you will also see Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama looking on with disgust.



You will also see Democrats looking on in angst and Judge Sotomayer apparently playing with her iPhone.



It is now clear that Trump had at least as many participants at his inauguration as Obama did in 2009, and probably more. The Left and MSM are terrible with numbers and only report them when they can distort and use them to support the Left’s agenda. Trump crushed Hillary in rally attendance and now as CNN’s pictures show, Trump crushed Obama in Inaugural attendance as well.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...t-it-was-huge/

Well, gee, thank you CNN. What came over you? CNN you need to inform your commentators and reporters. They still believe the lies "someone" told them to tell.

Thank you Jean for finding and reporting this. SHAME ON CNN AND MSM for trying to distort the facts about Trump's wonderful Inauguration. It was such a beautiful and wonderful 2 days, only really mean and evil people would want to try and spoil it or diminish it for the President, his family, his supporters, all the voters, all the viewers, and especially all the people who made the huge effort to attend the Inauguration.

It's immoral to do such a thing to anyone about any event, let alone an Inauguration of the President of the United States.