If neither a sitting president nor vice president is seeking their party's nomination, the nomination is said to be

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Scarlett Carrillo

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3 April, 22:37

If neither a sitting president nor vice president is seeking their party's nomination, the nomination is said to be

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Rachel Cooke · Answer 1

Open nomination

An open nomination is one whereby neither the sitting president or vice president is seeking nomination to be a party's presidential candidate. An example of such a situation was in 2008 and in 1952 whereby neither the sitting president were seeking the nomination