ordnance11 Wrote:Edit: Our boss has tickets to the Inaugural ball. He asked our office who wants to go. No takers. The rumor is that the scalpers are losing money over the tickets. It pretty much tells you want this town's reaction to Trump is.This actually made the morning news in Canada - the nation-wide radio news. The report was that a scalper paid $700 for two tickets, turned down an offer of $200 for them, and is now worried that he'll have to go to DC himself and use the tickets.
Setting aside the sunk-cost fallacy in that (instead of being out $700, the scalper is worried he'll be out $700 plus the cost of a hotel room plus the cost of a round trip to DC), it illustrates just how low Trump's approval rating is.
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Rob Kelk
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