Gonna be a crowded District of Columbia

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Monday, January 19, 2009 - 4:12 AM Share

Like many Americans, I'm looking forward to the end of the Bush era and the inauguration of Barack Obama. Until this weekend, however, it hadn't occurred to me that this event was going to start prior to Tuesday. Apparently, however, it's a several-day-long be-in.

And a lot of out-of-towners are going to be crashing in DC. My train from Boston to New York today was packed to the gills with Bostonians headed to DC for the inauguration. Given the weather in the Northeast today, they chose the right mode of transportation.