* Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign

After the victory of the PdL in the 2008 general election, AN was merged into the PdL in early 2009.

In the 2008 general election the party got 90 deputies and 48 senators elected.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

Despite a hotly contested South Carolina primary, none of the candidates appeared on the platform of BJU's Founders ' Memorial Amphitorium during the 2008 election cycle.

On 28 September 2008, the CSU failed to gain an absolute majority, attaining 43 %, of the vote in the Bavaria state election for the first time since 1966 on a percentage basis and was forced into a coalition with the FDP.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

In the 2008 elections, the opposition Union for a Presidential Majority ( UMP ) party boycotted the election, leaving all 65 seats to the ruling RPP.

The electricity sector is a highly politicized sector and with 2008 presidential election campaigning already in motion, the prospect of further effective reforms of the electricity sector is poor.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

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.

" It was later used in 2008 by pro-western Serbian voters ahead of an election.

* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US presidential election and The New York Times has described him as a political liberal.

In November 2008, the SPD re-elected Franz Müntefering as its chairman and made Frank-Walter Steinmeier its leading candidate for the federal election in September 2009.

Pertinent to a non-partisan study on the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research organization based in Washington, D. C., cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965-1982.

The 2008 election was won by the National Democratic Congress under Tillman Thomas with 11 of the 15 seats.

At the July 2008 election the NDC won a comfortable 7 seat majority over the government of former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.

In April 2008, following the 2008 Hamburg state election, the Green-Alternative List ( GAL ) in Hamburg entered into a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), the first such state-level coalition in Germany.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably for his wife's campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

During the 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, Clinton vigorously advocated on behalf of his wife, Hillary Clinton.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

The question of blackness also arose in Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Awareness and prevention campaign poster in Cayenne, French Guiana, 2008

The first decade of the 21st century saw the commencement of the $ 1. 3 billion Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, the largest capital fundraising campaign in the College's history, which surpassed $ 1 billion in 2008.

Since 2008, the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators ( IABTI ) have sponsored a nationwide charity campaign in the U. S., building beeping Easter eggs every year for visually impaired children.

The video was actually taken from a 2008 McCain-Palin campaign rally.

In June 2008, Heinz began an advertising campaign in the UK for their new ' New York Deli Mayo ' products.

A campaign was launched in February 2008 to identify participants, establish a network of cooperating bodies and seek outside funds to augment the initial $ 3 million endowment from the Authority.

In the 2008 elections for senators, the JDA fielded two candidates, two candidates stood as members of the campaign group " Jersey 2020 " ( focusing on environmental issues ) and two for " Time4Change / Reform ": none was successful.

In 2008, Kid Rock recorded " Warrior " for a National Guard advertising campaign.

The Brewers lost several key players from the 2008 playoff campaign following the season.

The Chargers started the 2009 campaign slowly, with a 2 – 3 record, a trend under current coach Norv Turner ( 1 – 3 in 2007 & 2 – 3 in 2008 ).

Conservative hosts Limbaugh, Ingraham, Bennett, Prager, Hannity, Beck, Levin and Hewitt coalesced around endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for president at the end of January 2008 ( after Fred Thompson, the described favorite of some of the hosts, dropped out ), in an effort to oppose the nomination of Sen. John McCain ; however, Romney suspended his campaign in February of the same year, and endorsed McCain.

* 2008: Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente 161, 603 votes: Cynthia McKinney presidential campaign, 2008.

On July 30, 2008, the Michigan Natural Law Party nominated Ralph Nader for president, ensuring the appearance of the Nader / Gonzalez campaign on the Michigan ballot.