The presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison played out this way, and might have started the trend of voting for the guy you'd want to have a beer with.
The story goes that a newspaper wanted to project Harrison as not being a serious candidate, so the paper suggested that he would forget about politics completely if offered a log cabin and a barrel of hard cider.
The Whig party basically shifted their entire campaign to "You're damn right. Vote for Harrison, a real hard cider drinking cabin man!"
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The presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison played out this way, and might have started the trend of voting for the guy you'd want to have a beer with.
The story goes that a newspaper wanted to project Harrison as not being a serious candidate, so the paper suggested that he would forget about politics completely if offered a log cabin and a barrel of hard cider.
The Whig party basically shifted their entire campaign to "You're damn right. Vote for Harrison, a real hard cider drinking cabin man!"
And so they did.