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"FacebookPinterest\n\nWhen I first approached the two pro-Newt hipsters at his victory rally Saturday, I assumed they were party crashers. They were, after all, young and stylish, and holding styrofoam cups I figured were vessels for contraband liquor. They alluded to being in an open marriage and suggested that Newt's supposedly shared values made him their candidate. I chatted with them briefly, and it was hilarious, so I wrote it up. Later, a male reporter noted that the woman had been very chatty with him. \"Oh my god, they were in an open marriage,\" he said.\n\nBut something felt off. So, we started poking around and couldn't turn up any married voters in South Carolina under their names. Then, yesterday we learned from a mutual acquaintance at GQ\u2014small world\u2014that \"Jack and Sarah Martin\" were two friends from college, liberals, not, alas, even married. We got in touch, and they told us the truth, which was even funnier.\n\n \"We have a long history of attending political events, usually as activists. We met at a protest right after 9/11 advocating for a peaceful response,\" said Sally, a lawyer in Charleston who didn't want me to use her full name because, well, there are consequences to these kinds of things. She and Janos (not Jack) were friends in college, and he has a history of crashing GOP events. \"This is my first time crashing a political event which is why I was so drunk when I met you,\" she said.\n\nEach of them picked a theme, a point they would try to get across when talking to supporters and press that night. Janos' was 'big ideas.' \"My theme was open marriage, which got me a lot of free drinks because a young Republican in a tight dress who goes around babbling about her open marriage gets a lot of drinks,\" Sally said.\n\n\"I started out on camera,\" Sally explains, \"I said it was a mandate for open marriage, at which point 'Jack' was like shh shh! And I said, you know, because preserving marriage is really important.\" The two worked the room impressively: accepting drinks, chatting up journalists from FOX News and The Seattle Times. At one point in the day they even met the candidate and got a photo with him and Callista. \"Honestly, he seemed really tired,\" she said. \"It was humanizing in that way.\"\n\nSally says Newt holds \"a special fascination\" because he's been a political bogeyman for most of her adult life. \"I still find him to be a pretty terrifying prospect,\" she says. As for her real stand on marriage? \"I'm not anti-monogamy, but I do think it's not the only option for relationships, and my friends all know that.\"\n\nSo, add the prank party crashers to the Occupiers, Ron Paulites, and Tea Partiers in funny tricorn hats you can expect to find at these political sideshows. It was a pretty hilarious joke, and Sally and I agreed that we'll all meet up at the Democratic convention in Charlotte this year. But I'm insisting drinks are on them."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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