Obama beats Romney in Massachusetts BOSTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- CNN and The Boston Globe projected President Barack Obama won Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes Tuesday, beating former Gov. Mitt Romney in that state. Obama tallied 58 percent of the popular vote, compared with Republican presidential nominee Romney's 40 percent, 11 percent of the results indicated. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, a Massachusetts physician, early collected 1 percent of the vote. Romney was governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. As governor, he helped develop and enact into law the Massachusetts healthcare reform legislation -- the first of its kind in the nation -- that provided near-universal health insurance access through state-level subsidies and individual mandates to purchase insurance. He also presided over the elimination of a projected $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion deficit through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees and the closure of corporate tax loopholes. Romney did not seek re-election in 2006, focusing instead on his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.