Lexicon of Politics: Day 13

front porcher n. [Cf. S.E. front-porch campaign, in Safire New Lang. Pol., p. 156] a political candidate who is reluctant to campaign widely.

1977 Coover Public Burning 432:
I like the campaign trains, I'm no front porcher, but this was too [explicit] much.

from the oxford dictionary of american political slang