Backtrack to last night

A snapshot of the scene last night in front of the Capitol (People were already lining up to find their spots for this morning):

Sarah Lloyd, 16-year-old high school junior from Chicago, arrived at the Capitol building with her mother at 6:30 p.m. Monday to wait for the ceremony. They had spread a blanket in the grass that was marked to be a standin-room-only ticketed area directly in front of the Capitol steps.

“We’re going to eat Pringles, sleep,” she said on Monday as she sat with a group of students from George Mason University she had just met. “We’ll stay here until we get kicked out, until the Inauguration if we can make it.”

Their backup plan, if they could not stay where they were, was to find the closest Jumbotron. 

“There’s a chance they’ll let us stand out here,” Sarah said, adding that she had volunteered for the campaign and canvassed in Indiana despite her inability to vote. “We believe we’re the people who put Barack in office, so we deserve it.”