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WASHINGTON - Linda Vega and Tony Rooney are both from metro Atlanta and both made the trip up for today's inauguration.

That's where the similarities end.

Vega, of McDonough, worked on Donald Trump's campaign and is thrilled to see him sworn in:

Rooney, of Atlanta, is "horrified and disgusted America has been reduced to a fascist state."

The two represent opposing sides queued up for what promises to be a lively day. At the moment hundreds of people vastly at odds are massed together in one of the enormous lines to get in, at times taunting each other with chants.

At the line I've been standing in for two hours, protesters seem to vastly outnumber supporters:

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