It seems that American political campaigns start to begin with and earlier with each political cycle .
However , if you thought the 2008 presidential race start up betimes , check out this clause from the April 16 , 1908 Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette ( Cedar Rapids , IA ) titled , “ ‘ tally ’ Opens Campaign for Presidency in Year 2008 . ” An excerpt along with the piece in its entirety appear below .
Charles Vaden Barton , “ the tally , ” one of the quality churl that ever infested the upper-case letter , has go far from Seattle to spread his campaign to elect himself president in 2008 . He herald that he is the John the Baptist of the millennium , and as he has special arrangements by which he beats the mortician and can not snuff it , he can start his presidential movement a prospicient time before and form up sentiment gradually . So he is starting 100 age in front , and expects that by the clip he is elect the millennium will begin coincident with his inauguration .
See also : Lyndon B. Johnson on 2063 A.D. ( 1963)Hubert H. Humphrey ’s Future ( 1967)Hubert H. Humphrey ’s Year 2000 ( 1967)Governor Knight and the Videophone ( Oakland Tribune , 1955)Edmund G. Brown ’s Californifuture ( 1963)Television : Medium of the Future ( 1949)Fruition of Ideals of Democracy ( 1923 )
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