"that was a squeaker"
Not trying to rebut your argument, but, offhand, can you provide any other recent contests with Teddy that might have been closer? You or others may well have such info. At the moment, I am not otherwise pro or con on Romney.
No, I can't; his seat is the definition of a safe seat. I merely looked up the stats because when the poster claimed that Romney "came close" to unseating Kennedy, that didn't square with my memory. And for once my memory was accurate.
If anything, the seat got even safer this year:
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2006&fips=25&f=0&off=3&elect=0
I could do stats on earlier elections far more easily if I had my CQ access here at home.