What one must remember is that the inauguration took place in a demographically Democratic area, Wash. D.C. They are almost all Libs, and also the population of Wash. D.C. is primarily Black. So of course there would be a large turnout, as Wash. D.C. is Black and liberal Dem and of course is in close proximity to the Capitol and inaugural festivities. What else would one expect?
I understand there was an extremely large gathering of blacks/libs/obama worshipers...the point I was making was that the media, as a whole and DC in particular were not satisfied to estimate the crowd as close as possible, they deliberately over estimated the gathering and jacked it up for the reasons I previously stated.