The demand for tickets is sky-high, and the likelihood is slim that all who want a ticket to President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration in January will receive one.
The only way to score one of the free tickets to the inauguration ceremony is from your member of Congress, who each get 198 tickets. But tickets, which have yet to be distributed, have been offered online for as much as $60,000.
Federal lawmakers have been inundated with hundreds of thousands of requests from constituents across the nation, each wanting to get their hands on one of the 240,000 tickets available to the presidential swearing-in ceremony.
That's about the same number of people who attended …

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