The truth about Massachusetts....is that it’s roughly forty percent hardcore Democrat, ten percent soft-core Democrat, forty percent independent, and ten percent Republican. Occasionally, you come up with one decent Republican for a state office and get the independents and the soft-core Democrats to support the guy. If you had to pick one of the toughest environments for a Republican to run an election in...this would be in the top three (put L.A. in there...and Detroit as the other).
Romney was a destructive force there.
Romney was the fourth republican governor in a row in the state which prefers republican governors, or did.
Romney did so poorly that he ruined the state party and had to give up his goal of running for reelection, Mitt left office with 34% approval and turned the seat over to a democrat.