How's a guy in Tennessee know so much about Mass politics? How long since you made it over the wall?
I make it my business to learn as much about the politics in other states as much as possible. I was, however, up in MA during the '94 elections and saw up close what was happening. The state itself should serve as a warning to what happens when a highly dominant majority Republican party erodes to dust under the leadership of bigoted liberal out-of-touch elites (and technically, you could say the decline started after the 1860s when the nativist element (the old Know-Nothings) excluded the Irish and Catholics, forcing them into the Democrats - that spelled the end 100 years ahead of time). We either remain vigilant to halt the Weldites or we lose - for good.