2008 Taiwan presidential election
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The <entity_0> (Chinese: 中華民國第十二任總統副總統選舉) was held on <entity_2>. The two candidates were Democratic Progressive Party candidate <entity_3> and Kuomintang (KMT) nominee <entity_1>. Unlike the <entity_5> presidential election, the political rhetoric of the campaigns tended to focus on economic issues and government corruption rather than national identity and the political status of <entity_4>, with both candidates endorsing the status quo in the short term. Following the KMT's defeat in <entity_5> and before the 2005 KMT chairman election, Taipei Mayor <entity_1> and Legislative Yuan President Wang Jin-pyng were both considered leading candidates for the nomination. Tens of thousands of Taiwanese waved banners and shouted political slogans March 16, 2008, as the island's rival parties rallied support ahead of the <entity_2> presidential elections, with the <entity_2> violence in Tibet in the background and <entity_4>'s own relations with the China on the front burner. The <entity_4>-wide events were meant to energize supporters in the home stretch of a race that has so far lacked the passion and commitment of presidential elections in 2000 and <entity_5>. The strategy of both sides, as was the case in <entity_5>, was to persuade voters that it can best maintain the status quo and protect <entity_4> from coerced unification by China. During the campaign, Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate <entity_3> and DPP legislators questioned <entity_1>'s loyalty to the Republic of China and to the people of <entity_4>. On March 16, 2008, standing for DPP candidate <entity_3> at a rally in Taichung, Chuang Kuo-jung, a deputy secretary for the Department of Education, called <entity_1> a "chicken" and further insulted his father and family. The final result, with all 14,401 precincts reporting, showed a landslide victory for the KMT candidate <entity_1> over the DPP candidate <entity_3>, with 7,658,724 votes, 58.45% of the popular vote for Ma against 5,445,239 votes, 41.55% for Hsieh. Runner-up Presidential candidate <entity_3> stated that the result should be considered a blow to himself rather than a blow to <entity_4>'s young democracy.
['Republic of China Presidential and Vice Presidential election']