Lack of Incumbent Creates Unique Election Year

Not many folks remember 1928. The few folks alive today that lived back then were just kids at the time. So you might not know that 1928 was the last time that there was no executive branch incumbent running for president.

See, usually a current or former vice president tries for the top of the ticket.

I fear that's not the only similarity. It was also the last election before the Great Depression.

Maybe those incumbents knew a thing or two that they weren't sharing, and that's why none of them wanted his hands on the wheel when the whole thing crashed.