In South Australia and Western Australia the two parties compete separately, while in the Northern Territory and Queensland the two parties have merged, forming the Country Liberal Party, in 1978, and the Liberal National Party, in 2008, respectively.

In January 2008, Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella launched an attack on Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on " the Bush Administration ( reversing ) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system ", claiming errors and " either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty ", and that he tacitly supports Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a " frothing-at-the-mouth leftie ".

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

It was the major coalition party in Queensland between 1924 and 2008, when it merged with the junior Queensland Division of the Liberal Party of Australia to form the Liberal National Party of Queensland ( LNP ), an organisation dominated by ex-Nationals – seats listed in this article do not include the LNP.

In Queensland the National Party merged with the Liberal Party forming the Liberal National Party in 2008.

Unlike its New South Wales and Queensland counterparts, the WA party had decided to oppose Liberal candidates in the 2008 election.

In September 2008, Barnaby Joyce replaced CLP Senator and Nationals deputy leader Nigel Scullion as leader of the Nationals in the Senate, and stated that his party in the upper house would no longer necessarily vote with their Liberal counterparts in the upper house, which opened up another possible avenue for the Rudd Labor Government to get legislation through.

Merger plans came to a head in May 2008, when the Queensland state Liberal Party gave an announcement not to wait for a federal blueprint but instead to merge immediately.

The new party, the Liberal National Party, was founded in July 2008.

While in opposition in 2008, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lobbied the Labour Government to change the law to allow Segways to use public cycle lanes.

The most recent elections were in May 2008, following which the council is made up of eight Conservatives, three Liberal Democrats, two members of the Labour Party and three independent councillors.

The institution is also popular with politicians and MPs to launch new policy, legislation and manifesto pledges, prominently with the launch of the Liberal Democrats Manifesto Conference under Nick Clegg on 12 January 2008.

Amid accusations of vote-rigging Argüello narrowly won the mayoral election in Managua on November 9, 2008 elections against the candidate of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party, Eduardo Montealegre, who had come second to Daniel Ortega in the 2006 presidential election.

* Brian Paddick, the candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the 2008 London Mayoral Election.

Since October 2008 the area has been represented on Camden Council by Liberal Democrat councilor Linda Chung, elected in a by-election to serve alongside Conservatives Kirsty Roberts and Chris Knight.

As of October 2008, the current membership of the Council is Conservative Party 33 ; Residents ' Association 12 ; Independent Local Residents 2 ; Labour Party 2 ; Hornchurch Residents 1 ; Rainham Residents 2 ; British National Party 1 ; Liberal Democrat 1.

Following Stéphane Dion's resignation as federal Liberal leader after the 2008 election, McKenna was once again touted as a possibility to take the helm of the federal Liberal Party.

After the local elections on 1 May 2008, there remained no overall control, with the 120 seats divided between Conservative ( 49 councillors ), Labour, ( 36 ), Liberal Democrat ( 32 ) and Respect ( 3 ).

After him, no political party in Quebec elections at the provincial level had managed to win more than two terms of office in a row until the December 2008 victory of Jean Charest's Liberal party, its third consecutive win.

* The 2008 – 2009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, in which Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois Members of Parliament attempted to have a vote of non-confidence against the Conservative government and replace it with a coalition government, was unprecedented in the Canadian constitutional system, as formal party based co-operation was rare.

Ellensburg leans toward supporting Democrats, giving then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois 56. 3 percent of its total vote in the 2008 presidential election to 41. 5 percent for his Republican rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

In November 2008, Pieter van Geel, the leader of the CDA ( Christian Democrats ) in the Dutch parliament, called for a ban on the cafes where marijuana is sold.

She was a Democrats senator for South Australia from 1995 to 2008.

The 2008 Republican presidential primary was slated to be held in February, while Democrats held their primary in June.

In 2008, Democrats tapped Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to give a response in English ; Texas state Senator Leticia Van de Putte did the same in Spanish.

) For example, if the Democrats had nominated both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for U. S. President in 2008, it would have allowed the Republican candidate ( John McCain ) to easily win ; the voters who preferred both Clinton and Obama over McCain could not have been relied on to solve the strategy coordination problem on their own.

Taos is predominantly made up of Democrats ; In 2008, approximately 74 % of registered Taos County voters were Democrats, 13 % Republicans and about 13 % were alternate parties or decline to affiliate with a party.

While Clinton County has historically been Republican like the rest of central Pennsylvania, Democrats captured the registration edge in early 2008.

A 2008 poll indicates that Americans are sharply divided when asked about their views of the expression socialized medicine, with a large percentage of Democrats holding favorable views, while a large percentage of Republicans holding unfavorable views.

All are Democrats and were re-elected in November 2008.

Also, the party's formal electoral and later parliamentary coalition with SLD, Left and Democrats, which lasted from 2006 until 2008, has been seen as disloyalty of Solidarity's ideals by many.

Of " straight-ticket " voters in the 2008 election there were 992 Republicans and 326 Democrats.

In the May 2008 council elections, Democrats Court Rosen, Anita Price, and Sherman Lea defeated a slate of loosely allied independent city council candidates including incumbent Brian Wishneff.

As of 2008, the ratio of Republicans to Democrats in Lancaster County now stands at 1. 8 Republicans to 1 Democrat, down from a 3-1 advantage for the Republicans in the late 1990s.

However, there has been a decided shift toward the Democrats in recent years, who overtook the Republican countywide registration during the summer of 2008.

In 2008, the Democrats captured the countywide registration edge, Barack Obama carried the county with 55 % of the vote to McCain's 44 %, and the other three statewide winners ( Rob McCord for Treasurer, Jack Wagner for Auditor General, and Tom Corbett for Attorney General ) also carried Centre.

Despite being overwhelmingly Democratic in registration and the Democrats holding the commissioner majority and all row offices, Cambria is a swing county in statewide elections, with all four statewide winners carrying it in 2008.

In 2008, the Democrats failed to field a candidate and the seat was won by Republican freshman Dave Burke.

Monsanto gave $ 186, 250 to federal candidates in the 2008 election cycle through its political action committee ( PAC ) – 42 % to Democrats, 58 % to Republicans.

The 2008 Democratic victories nationally had minimal effect on Pulaski County party affiliations, with retiring Republican Western District County Commissioner Dennis Thornsberry being replaced by another Republican, Ricky Zweerink ; the only party affiliation switch was in the county surveyor's office where Mackey recovered his seat for the Democrats after defeating Mayhew.

The Falcons would go on to lose in the wild-card round of the 2008 NFL playoffs to the eventual NFC champion Arizona Cardinals, 30 – 24.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

The 2008 team became the only team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.

Following their Super Bowl championship, the Colts would go onto a 13 – 3 record during the 2007 season and would lose to the San Diego Chargers in the divisional playoffs, which would be the final game the Colts played at the RCA Dome, with the Colts moving into Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.

An October 19, 2008 Associated Press article reported about the Chinese citizens complaining about how the current U. S. economic crises had caused them to lose their sweatshop jobs.

The next legislative election in 2008 saw the party lose 15 seats with a 8. 35 % decrease in its share of the vote.

The Nepalese monarchy was formally abolished on 28 May 2008, causing King Gyanendra to lose his throne.

In April 2008, the holding company, responding to losses and difficulties sustained as a result of the 2007-2008 subprime mortgage crisis, announced that 3, 000 people companywide would lose their jobs, and the company stated its intent to close its approximately 186 remaining stand-alone, home-loan offices, including 23 in Washington State and a loan-processing center in Bellevue, Washington.

In his 2008 book How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time, Iain King suggested a credible rule on lying was possible, and defined it as: " Deceive only if you can change behaviour in a way worth more than the trust you would lose, were the deception discovered ( whether the deception actually is exposed or not ).

In November 2008, during an appearance on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, Eavis stated that the Festival could never lose its licence due to the contribution it makes to the local economy.

The town's senior non-league football side is Havant & Waterlooville F. C., On January 16, 2008 they reached the fourth round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history, beating Swansea City 4-2 in a third-round replay, setting up a 4th round match against Liverpool at Anfield, which they went on to lose 5-2 despite having led twice in the first half.

On September 18, 2008 a new attendance record was set as 8, 672 watched Northern Michigan University lose to the Michigan Tech Huskies in a televised game.

Jaffer was the only Alberta Conservative MP to lose his seat in the 2008 election.

Jefferson was defeated by Republican Joseph Cao on December 6, 2008, being the most senior Democrat to lose re-election that year.

On 10 September 2008, Ant & Dec announced that the frauds " will never happen again ", insisting that a high-tech system and strict rules will ensure viewers cannot lose out with poorly monitored premium rate phone lines.

In 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a presidential primary, winning the New Hampshire Democratic primary although polls had predicted she would lose.

" On the MSNBC show Tucker, Russert predicted the battleground states of the 2008 presidential election would be New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada, saying, " If Democrats can win three of those four, they can lose Ohio and Florida, and win the presidency.

From 2008, he claimed that what would facilitate such a collapse would be for the Conservative Party to lose the 2010 general election.

In December 2008, the draft modalities text of the Doha Development Round was revised such that upon signing in its revised form, the CWB would lose statutory privileges such as the single desk within 5 years of the signing.

A 2008 medical case report described a patient with severe acidosis possibly attributable to a year of daily use ( to lose weight, dose not described ) of mangosteen juice ( brand not described ) infused with xanthonoids, as occurs in the manufacture of XanGo juice.

Halter went on to lose, but only by 4 % in a state that went overwhelmingly to John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

In 2008, Tanmoy Chakrabarty noted that " There are vested interests everywhere, politicians fear that they will lose control with e-government, and this is coming in the way of successful implementation of e-government projects in India.

He opened the 2008 / 09 season with first-round defeats in the first five tournaments, but victory over Ebdon in the first round of the World Championship ensured that he didn't lose his top 32 status.

Leave in excess of 75 days is known as " Use or Lose ", if the servicemember does not use the excess leave by October 1 he or she will lose it ( this has been extended from 60 days to 75 from June 27, 2008 until 30 September 2013 ).