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The candidate was running late, of course. So, on a sweltering June morning, I was left to wander the third-floor headquarters of Peter Hutchinson’s gubernatorial campaign and consider its architect. Two floors above a coffee shop and the funky Architectural Antiques, someone erected temporary walls to form a couple of small offices, and in one large, sunny room, staffers at desks went about the business of furthering the prospects of this unlikely endeavor. An unruly collection of signs—“Not Left. Not Right.