front-porch campaign

1. 1.

   a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel

   “William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in 1896”

   “her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign”

   Synonymsfront-porch campaigning

   Broadercampaigning

Questions about front-porch campaign

What does front-porch campaign mean?

front-porch campaign means "a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel".

What is another word for front-porch campaign?

Close synonyms include front-porch campaigning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.