Talk:2008 United States elections

What does this mean?

 * Incumbent President George W. Bush is ineligible for re-election per the 22nd Amendment that limited a president to two terms. Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to run for the office makes the 2008 presidential election the first since 1928 to not feature an incumbent president or vice president as a candidate, and the first since 1952 to not have them be candidates in the general election.

What's the difference between "the first since 1928 to not feature an incumbent president or vice president as a candidate" and "the first since 1952 to not have them be candidates in the general election," besides the year? What happened in 1928 and 1952? I think we should clarify what exactly this means in the article because I don't think it's clear when you first read it. --Purifiedwater (talk) 14:08, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * * I think I get it now. Does it mean that in 1928, neither the president or VP ran for (re)election, and in 1952, either the president or VP ran for (re)election but lost the primary for their own party? If so, I still think that should be clarified in the article. --Purifiedwater (talk) 14:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I researched the appropriate Wiki articles and clarified. Schoop (talk) 17:53, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

It's still not very clear. In 1952 the major party tickets featured four "new" faces (Eisenhower-Nixon vs Stevenson-Sparkman) with regard to incumbent or former presidency or vice-presidency. I gather that the fact that President Truman considered seeking a second full term and entered early primaries shifts the focus back to 1928 for a completely clean slate? I suspect that this one-sentence fact would have to be spun out into a full section to read clearly. WHPratt (talk) 16:32, 16 June 2009 (UTC)