United States presidential election, 2008 (Temporal Incursion 1918)

The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Republican Party nominee Senator Tony Cervantes of California and running mate Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine defeated Democratic Party nominee Vice President Evan Bayh of Indiana and running mate Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut.

The incumbent president, Ray Sekine, was ineligible to be elected to a third term due to term limits in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Early campaigning had focused heavily on Naziristan, but all candidates focused on domestic concerns as well, which grew more prominent as the economy experienced the onset of the Great Recession and a major financial crisis that peaked in September 2008.

Cervantes' successes in obtaining a major party's nomination and winning the general election were both firsts for a Hispanic American. Olympia Snowe became the first woman to appear on a Republican presidential ticket.