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.

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

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

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.

Coldcut also collaborated with video mashup artist TV Sheriff and NomIg., to produce two audiovisual pieces " World of Evil " ( 2004 ) and " Revolution ' 08 " ( 2008 ), both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of the respective years.

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.

In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).

On October 17, 2008, Devo performed a special concert at the Akron Civic Theater, their first in Akron since 1978, to promote Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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.

* 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.

President Saakashvili rejected all demands that he resign his position, but announced early presidential elections to be held in January 2008, effectively cutting his term in office by a year.

During the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Lynch was one of eight superdelegates from New Hampshire.

* United States presidential inauguration, held every four years since 1937 ( with 2 exceptions by Eisenhower & Reagan, on January 21st because January 20 was a Sunday and 1985 ) in odd-numbered years after years when the United States Presidential Election takes place ( as the election takes place in years divisible by four – 2004, 2008, 2012, and so on – the inauguration takes place in 2005, 2009, 2013, etc .).

On January 6, 2008, Kemp endorsed McCain in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries shortly before the New Hampshire primary, which surprised conservative Republican tax cutters.

" On July 28, 2008, he wrote an editorial in The Washington Times critical of then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Bacon and Sedgwick appeared in will. i. am's video " It's a New Day ", which was released following Barack Obama's 2008 presidential win.

Grammer endorsed Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 presidential primary and later campaigned for John McCain in the general election.

Four years later, she supported Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

* 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.

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 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.

* 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.

In his 2008 election campaign, President Barack Obama advocated a full repeal of the laws barring homosexuals from serving in the military.

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

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.

At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

lati per US dollar – 0. 56 ( 2012 ), 0. 44 ( 2008 ), 0. 5402 ( 2004 ), 0. 57 ( 2003 ), 0. 62 ( 2002 ), 0. 63 ( 2001 ), 0. 61 ( 2000 ), 0. 59 ( 1999 ), 0. 590 ( 1998 ), 0. 581 ( 1997 ), 0. 551 ( 1996 ), 0. 528 ( 1995 )

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

Nicaraguan exports to the United States, which account for 59 % of Nicaragua ’ s total exports, were $ 1. 7 billion in 2008, up 45 % from 2005.

A 2007 poll commissioned by the Center Against Racism ( 2008 ) found a worsening of Jewish citizens ' perceptions of their Arab counterparts: For instance, 75 % of Israeli Jews would not agree to live in a building with Arab residents, 60 % would not accept any Arab visitors at their homes, 40 % believed that Arabs should be stripped of their right to vote, and 59 % believe that the culture of Arabs is primitive.

" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59 ( 2008 ): 1053-1072.

In 2008, Barack Obama won with 59. 8 % of the popular vote ( 141, 544 total votes ) to Republican John McCain's with 37. 7 % ( 89, 185 ).

In 2004 it voted for George Bush over John Kerry by a margin of 63 to 34 and in 2008 it voted for John McCain over Barack Obama by a margin of 59 to 39.

In 2008 John McCain carried Chenango County over Barack Obama by a surprisingly close margin of 49. 59 %- 48. 45 % or a difference of 237 votes.

Nonetheless, the 2008 Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast ( UCERF ) has estimated that the probability of an M ≥ 6. 7 earthquake within the next 30 years on the northern and southern segments of the San Andreas fault as 21 % and 59 %, respectively.

In 2008, John McCain won Carbon County with 52. 60 % of the vote, versus 44. 59 % for Barack Obama.

The Magic finished the regular season with a 59 – 23 record, matching their record from the 2008 – 09 season, and finishing with not only the second-best record in the Eastern Conference, but the second-best record in the entire league.

In 2008, the Italian national institute of statistics ISTAT estimated that 59, 749 foreign-born immigrants live in Abruzzo, equal to 4. 5 % of the total regional population.

González, Ondina E. and Justo L. González, Christianity in Latin America: a history, p. 59, Cambridge University Press, 2008

2008 election results are as follows: Republican Jack Hoogendyk received 59. 08 % of Ottawa County's vote in his failed bid against US Senator Carl Levin ; Republican Representative Peter Hoekstra received 71. 7 % of the vote ; Republican David Agema received 73. 45 % in the race for the 74th district ; Republican Arlan B. Meekhof received 60. 71 % in his race for the 89th District ; Republican Joseph Haveman received 71. 92 % in his race for the 90th District ; and Holly Hughes received 61. 55 % in her failed bid against Mary Valentine for the 91st District.

Although the parish trends Democratic, in the 2008 presidential election, the Democrat Barack Obama of Illinois received 3, 766 votes ( 39. 5 percent ) in Concordia Parish to 5, 668 ( 59. 5 percent ) for the Republican nominee, John S. McCain of Arizona.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Sterling spent 1. 59 % ($ 289, 567 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 36 per person.

In 2008, Crookston-based Agassiz Energy, LLC, announced that it had postponed indefinitely its plans for a $ 58. 5 million ethanol plant at the junction of the former Great Northern and Soo Line railroads, near the interchange of U. S. Routes 59 and 2.

In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 59. 9 % of the vote here ( 4, 960 ballots cast ), outpolling Republican John McCain, who received 39. 0 % of the vote ( 3, 228 ), with 81. 7 % of registered voters participating.

In 2008, Republican John McCain received 59 % of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 40 %.

In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican John McCain received 59 % of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 39 %.

In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican John McCain received 59 % of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 39 %.

In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican John McCain received 59. 2 % of the vote ( 3, 384 ballots cast ), outpolling Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 39. 7 % ( 2, 270 votes ), with 5, 716 of the borough's 7, 330 voters participating, for a turnout of 78. 0 %.

In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican John McCain received 59 % of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 40 %.