{"id":214538,"date":"2010-01-22T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/report-gmc-canyon-sales-rise-in-ma-thanks-to-senators-win-w-v\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:59:00","slug":"report-gmc-canyon-sales-rise-in-ma-thanks-to-senators-win-wvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/214538","title":{"rendered":"Report: GMC Canyon sales rise in MA thanks to senator&#8217;s win (w\/video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/trucks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Truck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/government-legal\/\" rel=\"tag\">Government\/Legal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/marketing-advertising\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marketing\/Advertising<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/videos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gmc\/\" rel=\"tag\">GMC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/report-gmc-canyon-sales-rise-in-ma-thanks-to-senators-win-w-v\/#continued\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/scott-brown-truck.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Scott Brown and his 2005 GMC Canyon pickup &#8211; Click above to watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/report-gmc-canyon-sales-rise-in-ma-thanks-to-senators-win-w-v\/#continued\">after the break<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nNever underestimate the power of a celebrity endorsement. Or, for that matter, a political one. Massachusetts senator-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownforussenate.com\/\">Scott Brown<\/a> (R) won an unprecedented victory Tuesday in the state&#8217;s special election to replace Ted Kennedy, and he reportedly earned extra brownie points from voters for promising to keep his staid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/canyon\">2005 GMC Canyon<\/a> pickup truck with over 200,000 miles on the clock as his daily driver in office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Scott Brown, I&#8217;m from Wrentham, and I drive a truck,&#8221; the candidate had been known to say. This was especially true after President Obama quipped that voters should &#8220;look under the hood&#8221; in reference to Brown&#8217;s candidacy. Apparently, that nice, average guy persona sat well with the state&#8217;s population &#8211; so much so that area dealerships are reportedly noting an increased level of interest in the oft-overlooked pickup truck from The General.<\/p>\n<p>Al Cerrone, owner of a local GMC dealership, claims, &#8220;We&#8217;ve gotten eight to 12 phone calls from people asking, &#8216;Do you sell trucks like that?&#8221;&#8217; To which we can only imagine he responded with, &#8220;Yes we can!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/report-gmc-canyon-sales-rise-in-ma-thanks-to-senators-win-w-v\/#continued\">Click past the break<\/a> to watch a video from Scott Brown&#8217;s campaign featuring his GMC Canyon pickup truck. <em>Thanks for the tip, Phil!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/cars\/newsandreviews\/overdrive\/2010\/01\/truck_sales_picked_up_by_scott_browns_ho-hum_gmc.html?camp=localsearch:on:twit:cars\">Boston.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/report-gmc-canyon-sales-rise-in-ma-thanks-to-senators-win-w-v\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Report: GMC Canyon sales rise in MA thanks to senator&#8217;s win (w\/video)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/report-gmc-canyon-sales-rise-in-ma-thanks-to-senators-win-w-v\/\">Report: GMC Canyon sales rise in MA thanks to senator&#8217;s win (w\/video)<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:59:00 EST.  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Or, for that matter, a political one. Massachusetts senator-elect Scott Brown (R) won an unprecedented victory Tuesday in the state&#8217;s special election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}