Former President Bill Clinton stopped at the Newton home of James and Janet Byrd during his "front porch tour" that spanned Western North Carolina during the weekend. Campaigning for his wife Hillary, the former president attracted a few hundred people to the South College Street home, including area Republicans who voiced an interest in simply seeing a former president.

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