That's John Baldacci, the Democratic governor Maine, signing into law a gay marriage bill. The speed with which this issue is going mainstream is truly head-spinning. Mr Baldacci is term-limited in 2010, so the political risks are low here, but increasingly states with lots of white liberals and moderates are falling to the gay marriage wave. It's more conservative states, and states with large black populations that can be organised by conservatives (as opposed to Washington, DC, where they can't) that will be the last to move.

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