It's also worth noting that the Democratic candidates in '04 and '88 were from MA, which probably gave them bigger margins of victory than they would have got otherwise.
Clinton's '96 margin is pretty crazy though. Wow.
Yeah, the '96 MA result was a bit wild. Dole completely bottomed out there, and didn't even make into the 30s (he got 28% to Clinton's 61.47%). Outside of D.C., it was Dole's worst state, by a pretty large margin. The 2nd worst was New York (Clinton won 59-31%).
Edited to add that practically every politician from Massachusetts goes on to run for President these days, I mean, am I right? Romney, Kerry, Dukakis, T. Kennedy, J. Kennedy... Who am I missing?