Republicans won the MA State Senate race by over 8 points. I guess there's nowhere to go but up when you're at rock bottom, but it's a start.
Apparently the new state GOP chair put a serious effort into flipping it. According to my buddy who used to work for Baker's campaign, former chair Jim Lyons was basically the Kelli Ward of MA in that he totally destroyed the state GOP apparatus, but got no attention because the state is already so blue. It's good that they're at least trying to turn things around now.
It won't become competitive at the federal level anytime soon, but down the road, I think MA is way more likely to elect another Republican governor than MD is.
MA has always been open to electing the "right" kind of GOP governors.
