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...what Toobin and others were seeing early were the returns from the cities, towns and suburbs in Maine. In more rural areas, votes were being counted by hand. By midnight, the momentum had swung the other way, and gay-marriage opponents' lead continued to grow into the morning...
...That campaign looked to be winning for much of Tuesday evening. Looking at early vote totals, CNN legal-affairs analyst Jeffrey Toobin said if the trend held, the vote in Maine would have enormous implications in favor of gay marriage elsewhere. "That's a big cultural change," he said. "Every time voters have spoken - every time - they have rejected gay marriage. But this shows the country is changing...
...don’t work as hard as he has on a campaign for Obama without usually some ambition for a job,” Toobin said, adding that many approve of Summers’ work during the Clinton years...
...We’re really in the realm of pure speculation because no one wants to appear too hungry for a job, and no one in the Obama camp is in a position to promise anyone anything,” said Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82, an author and analyst for The New Yorker and CNN. “That of course counts for the McCain campaign as well...
...Toobin, a former Crimson sports editor, named Law School Dean Elena Kagan and constitutional law scholar Cass R. Sunstein ’75 as candidates in line for high-ranking posts in the Justice Department or for an appointment to the Supreme Court...