Was It the Truck?

Scott Brown’s upset in Massachusetts came after months of campaigning in his beloved pickup. From Fred Thompson to Richard Nixon, VIEW OUR GALLERY of candidates who tailgated for votes.

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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---brown_fyphx3 — Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown greets a crowd at a campaign rally in Plymouth on January 16. Brown made his 2005 GMC Canyon a centerpiece of his campaign. "I'm Scott Brown. I'm from Wrentham. I drive a truck. And I'm nobody's senator but yours," he said at his victory party in Boston last night.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---clinton_qf9rty — Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with North Carolina Governor Mike Easley during a campaign event May 3, 2008, in Gastonia, North Carolina.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---clinton-2_eezess — Bill Clinton with Hillary at a presidential campaign stop in McAllen, Texas, on November 2, 1992.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---gephardt_p0nt4i — Presidential candidate Dick Gephardt speaks to union workers on January 17, 2004, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---george-w-bush_gqsxms — Presidential hopeful George W. Bush and his wife Laura give a tour of their ranch to the media in Crawford, Texas, on July 21, 2000.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---gore_x9tck2 — Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore gives the thumbs up as his running mate Senator Joe Lieberman talks to firefighters from the back of a Tampa, Florida Fire Department truck during their presidential campaign, September 4, 2000.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---edwards_c2jp18 — Vice-presidential nominee John Edwards during a visit to the United Steel Workers Association Local 5668 in Ravenswood, West Virginia, on September 15, 2004.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---friedman_b2j9ri — NASCAR Truck Series driver Robert Richardson, center rear, prepares to qualify for the Silverado 350 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 2, 2006. Richardson’s truck was sponsored by Texas independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---obama_rbymqw — Barack Obama speaks on a grassroots canvass with supporters at Lincoln Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa, on June 9, 2007.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---salazar_nelqn6 — Senator-elect Ken Salazar (D-CO) stands in front of his "favorite old truck" as he holds a news conference at his campaign headquarters in Denver on November 3, 2004.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---romney_olrrzr — Mitt Romney greets supporters during a campaign stop at the Alfano Conference Center in Tampa, Florida, on January 23, 2008.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---thompson_uh70pb — The red pickup truck used by Fred Thompson during his successful 1994 Senate campaign sits in Franklin, Tennessee.
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galleries/2010/01/20/was-it-the-truck/truck-campaigning---nixon_kpmhhm — Richard Nixon makes a speech from the back of a pickup truck in a parking lot during his senatorial campaign in 1950.
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