I found your post astute to that point. I don't think we can do better in Mass than Brown. We would be trading a Rockefeller Repub for a hard leftie.
Can we do better in Maine? I'm inclined to risk it...as a matter of principle. We can't let RINOs get too comfortable, and the Girls have been there long enough.
The place just isn't America anymore, so either we get rid of it ~ or we do what we can, but first off don't let in any more Stalinists than they already have.