When he parachuted into Massachusetts for a day to help Martha Coakley in her bid for the Senate in Massachusetts in January, President Obama seemed strangely obsessed with Scott Brown’s truck, which was featured in one of his campaign ads. Obama seemed to think the truck was empty symbolism, a silly attempt to establish humble, working-class bona fides that all clear-thinking Massachusetts voters should dismiss as a gimmick.

Here we are, seven or eight months later, and what are we seeing in the ads of endangered Democratic House incumbents? The NRCC takes a look:

Hey, look at the bright side; the way the Democrats have managed the economy, it’s just good to see anybody buying a truck these days.

And I figure that in every commercial, most voters watching can spot the real clunker ready for a trade-in.