Could Mitt Romney run for the 2010 New Hampshire Senate Race?

Romney has a house in New Hampshire, Utah, and Massachusetts. He may have been governor of Mass, but could he still run in another state? Has someone in US history, has ever ran for office in different states?

Public Comments

1. He can, but I think he would better serve as a presidential candidate in 2012.
2. We really lost a great Senator in John Sununu. Hopefully he will run.
3. Yes. But first he would have to establish New Hampshire as his state of residency. This would be a formality, but it has been done. Witness Hillary Rodham Clinton running for the Senate in New York. She announced her intention, then went about buying a house to establish her residency. Remember, she used to be First Lady of the state of Arkansas. Also, witness that Dick Cheney ran for vice president as a resident of Wyoming, when he had spent the previous several years residing in Texas. The problem was that the Constitution requires the president and the vice president to be from different states, yet Bush wanted to make him his running mate. The only way to do it was for Cheney to re-establish Wyoming as his state of residence. He did it, and a couple of days later, Bush announced him as his choice for running mate.
4. He could, but I doubt he would win. It's highly unusual for politicians to get elected to office in more than one state. Their opponents can easily portray them as an opportunistic carpetbagger (which, you could argue, they are).
5. Yes. He would only have to establish legal residence in NH between now and 2010, which would be pretty easy. However, it's one thing to be a candidate and quite another to win. Although some, most recently Hillary Clinton, and also famously Bobby Kennedy, have overcome not being real residents of the state they ran in to win, it's a major disadvantage. Voters in NH, I think, would be particularly unlikely to support an outsider who really isn't a native son. Alan Keyes is the only person I know of who was a candidate in two different states, losing Senate campaigns in both Maryland and Illinois.