Inaugural Seating Map

The scramble is on for Obama inauguration tickets. Three of my friends and I are trying to get tickets for the swearing in ceremony on January 20th. We've all made our official requests; but, my friend Elisa out in Washington State is the only one to have someone from her Congressperon's office even respond.

For the 240,000 tickets available, the ticket requests coming through Congressional offices are off the charts. As of Sunday US Senator from Virgina Jim Webb had received 26,000 requests alone. The National Park service says that the last time a one million+ crowd descended on Washington for an inauguration was the 1965 inaugural of Lyndon B Johnson. Obama's inauguration could easily top that, in my opinion. Everyone wants to be there to witness history (and watch Bush finally move out of the White House).

At this point, we think Elisa's the best hope at this point since we figure fewer folks from Washington State will make the cross-country trip. The other three of us who live in Philly, DC, and Chicago respectively think our odds of scoring tickets are slimmer than a Bush third term since we all live in high demand areas. But, we're keeping our fingers crossed that we'll get lucky.

In the meantime, I saw a new seating plan for the 1 million+ folks expected to descend on DC for the inauguration:

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Don't try drinking anything while watching the second half of this one.