He's sold hot dogs in Minnesota and spent summers in Colorado. His mother lives in Florida and Ohio looks just like his native Wisconsin.
Whatever the swing state, Paul Ryan found a way to call it home.
Addressing one of his largest crowds of the campaign, the Republican vice-presidential candidate ticked off his many ties to Minnesota, one of a handful of states Mitt Romney's team visited in the final countdown.
Ryan is from Wisconsin, Minnesota's neighbour and occasional friendly rival. But he boasted that he was often mistaken as one of the crowd's own.
"In [Washington] DC, people say, 'Oh yeah, Ryan, you're the budget guy from Minnesota, right? I'm from Wisconsin. Close," Ryan said at the gathering at an airport hangar on Sunday.
Politicians often highlight connections to states they visit. But few can match Ryan.
In Minnesota, Ryan talked about the summer job he had selling Oscar Mayer products in the northern part of the state. He mentioned his cousin, Terry, who works for the Minnesota Twins baseball team. He joked about needing better equipment for ice fishing, a passion in the state with long, cold winters.