[buccaneer81]

Remember Ed King's "Make It In Massachusetts?"

Quickly supplanted by "Barely Making It In Massachusetts" beginning in '83 with the return of Dukakis.

[GOPsterinMA]

Ed King - 1979, I was 6. I don't remember him, although I have always heard good things about him (even though he was a Dem, although later in life he switched and became a Republican, IIRC).

I do remember “The Massachusetts Miracle” and “Yes on 2, no on 3”.

His predecessor and successor, Dukey the Greek, OTOH, yeah - sucked, sucked and sucked. Although to be fair, Deval Patrick ALMOST makes Duke look simply bad, instead of dreadful.