The U.S. presidential campaign season is already in full swing with weary voters enduring endless campaign appearances, sound bites and robocalls from the various candidates.
Presidential politics were much different more than 100 years ago, but the figurative seeds that would germinate into today's full-fledged campaign frenzy may have first sprouted on an Ohio front porch in the fall of 1880.
James A. Garfield was a gifted orator with a compelling rags-to-riches biography, and the front-porch presidential campaign he conducted from his Ohio home was arguably the first step towards what would evolve into the modern-day campaigns that keep the candidate front-and-center.
Read all about it by checking out Front porch politics in Mentor, Ohio, my most recent story (posted just in time for Presidents Day) at the Ohio Tourism Division's Discovering Ohio blog.
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