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A woman ding-ding-dinged next. “Just a reminder, tomorrow we’re having our open house and house warming.”

They fell back to eating. Did you know, said resident Steven Gustafson — one of the founders of the Commons — this used to be an old truck repair building? And did you know this was where Arcata Library Bike got its start? Gustafson’s wife, Lynnette Chen, an HSU teacher, said it didn’t surprise her that her precinct’s the most left-leaning.

However, judging by a few Green and former Green confessions, it was evident that Obama had found favor here at the Commons. Thompson and Chesbro, too. Tucker said, about people who voted Peace and Freedom or Green, “They’re people who are bad at math — who made a choice to be disaffected rather than change the country themselves.”

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