Brown's pickup truck is back
A screenshot from the Brown political commercial.
Former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts announces rerun in New Hampshire
No barn coat this time but his pickup truck still runs
No barn coat this time, but Scott Brown is still driving his pickup truck which was part of his "everyman" appeal that helped him defeat Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in the race to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2010.
And when he announced his official entrance into the NH race to replace incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, he did so with a commercial which begins with video of Brown’s famous GMC pickup truck rolling down a snowy road.
At a meeting of about 200 supporters last night, Brown said, “Starting today, I am a candidate for the United States Senate for the state of New Hampshire."
And today Brown's truck is featured prominently in his first campaign commercial to become the first person in over a century to be elected a United States Senator from two states.
"Live Free or Log-on"
Brown, who moved to New Hampshire in December, faces several other Republican primary opponents in the September primary.
Our cartoonist Joe Quigley predicted the move to NH a year ago.
Last night he accused Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen of being a rubber stamp for President Barack Obama, and criticized her support for the federal health care overhaul law. Tweaking New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" motto, Brown said the law forces people to make a choice "live free or log on," and said the worst is yet to come.
New poll shows Brown gains and loses
The state's biggest television station,WMUR, just released the latest of it Granite State Polls which shows Shaheen leading Brown by 6 percentage points, 45 to 39 percent, a drop from the last poll conducted in January where Shaheen led by 10 percentage points, 47 percent to 37 percent.
But the closeness belies the fact that Shaheen remains much better-liked in her home state than Brown. Shaheen is viewed favorably by 49 percent of New Hampshire voters and unfavorably by 35 percent, while views of Brown were more negative than positive with 39 percent saying they have an unfavorable view of Brown, while 29 percent have a favorable view of him.
If Brown wins in November, he will join an exclusive club of two; senators who have represented more than one state. Both the others were elected in the 19th century: Waitman T. Willey went to the Senate from Virginia, and until 1871 from West Virginia; James Shields represented Illinois, Minnesota and until 1879, Missouri.
See his commercial here.
Read the story in today's NY Times here.
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