But can you clearly blame Romney for the increase in democratic regsitration in MA? Lots of people around the country were pissed off because of the way the Iraq war was going, and I think that has contributed to republicans losing some support.
Romney tried to get more conservative republicans elected to help him defeat the liberals. His efforts failed because the “republicans” in Mass were too liberal to support any conservatives.
The conservative republicans moved away, the liberals decided they might as well be democrats.