The United States Presidential election of 2008 was held on November _, 2008 to elect a President. Incumbent Democrat Dan Quayle of Indiana was term-limited and thus prohibited from seeking a third term. Out of a vicious Democratic primary, New York Senator Rudy Giuliani emerged as the nominee over Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Vice President Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback. On the Socialist side, 2004 Vice Presidential nominee John Kerry of Massachusetts was upset by fellow Senator Joseph R. Biden of Delaware, who upset Kerry in the crucial New Hampshire primaries.