Inaugurations are ususally stuffy affairs, but on Jan. 20, things changed. On the podium, President Obama beamed (even when the Chief Justice flubbed the oath), his children kidded around, and Rev. Joseph Lowrey brought the house down with a benediction hoping for a "day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around..." But the most unstuffed (and unprecedented) part of the occasion happened in the specator seats—on the National Mall grounds, in front of TV sets around the world, and even in the inaugural balls. A look at the often off-the-charts energy level of Obama's supporters on that historic day.
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