* 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.

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

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.

She has advocated for stricter gun control laws and gay rights, and voted against California's Proposition 8 during the 2008 elections.

In November 2008, Columbia's undergraduate student body held a referendum on the question of whether or not to invite ROTC back to campus, and the students who voted were almost evenly divided on the issue.

Neither body sent representatives to the CUIC plenary on January 11 – 14, 2008, though the AME Council of Bishops never voted to suspend membership officially.

A 2008 American Film Institute poll voted Hoosiers the fourth-greatest film of all time in the sports genre.

In 2008, Parliament voted to dismiss President Preval's Prime Minister following severe rioting over food prices.

It is popular with travellers – from 2001 to 2005 and 2007 – 2008 Hong Kong International Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport in an annual survey of several million passengers worldwide by Skytrax.

In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).

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Malaysians voted March 8, 2008 in parliamentary elections.

In December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly voted for a resolution condemning Burma's human rights record ; it was supported by 80 countries, with 25 voting against and 45 abstaining.

One of the leading VSAT service providers is Syscomptech, they were voted the best Direct VSAT Marketers in 2008 and maintains satellites with direct footprints over Nigeria.

In 2007 the UK's first Vegan ' tapas ' bar was opened, and in spring 2008 the students voted ( by a large majority ) for Pembroke to serve only free-range chicken ( it will be the first UK college to do so ).

The 2008 General Assembly voted to create a committee to study the confession and bring a recommendation to the 2010 General Assembly.

On 17 February 2008, 109 members ( 10 members including all Kosovo Serbs were absent ) of the Kosovo Assembly voted unanimously to declare independence.

In a survey of 2000 people conducted by Coolbrands in autumn 2008, Cockney was voted equal fourth coolest accent in Britain with 7 % of the votes, while The Queen's English was considered the coolest, with 20 % of the votes.

In 2008, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted for an initiative to introduce an EU organ donor card in order to foster organ donation in Europe.

Dutchess County has historically leaned Republican due to its affluence and large suburban swaths ; it has voted for Democratic presidential candidates only three times-1964, 1996 and 2008.

In July 2007, the party voted to dissolve itself on 1 January 2008.

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 November 2008, the UIPM voted to change the format from the start of 2009.

A 2008 poll of editors on Virtualtourist voted the building the second-ugliest building in the world.

In the 2008 U. S. presidential election, the county voted for John McCain by a 58. 9 % margin over Barack Obama, with McCain winning by 28. 1 % statewide.

Orange County voted for Barack Obama 72 %- 27 % over John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

In 2008 The Hockey News ' staff voted the team's main logo to be the best in the NHL.