(photo courtesy of PresidentBenjaminHarrison.org)

Phone calls, commericals, mail...we might soon be up to our eyeballs in campaign messaging, but how much has that changed over time?

Listen:

Quite a bit according to the curator of the Benjamin Harrison House. In fact, instead of the candidate knocking on your door, or traveling to a town hall, Jennifer Capps says you would be more likely to take a train and walk to the candidate's house. "Train was available but they felt that the 'Front Porch Campaign' was just sort of a style at that time."

Of course there were still campaign gimmicks though, but not the paper palm-cards, and buttons we see today. In fact, one group of presidential supporters for Harrison rolled a huge ball from Massachusetts to Indianapolis.