These were followed by local-level elections in mid-2006 and by the Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral races-always hard fought since they are read as key indicators of who is up and who is down-at the end of 2006. With each election comes a new wave of efforts to grab the media spotlight and mobilize core supporters, in which abusive, ethnically divisive language is thrown around and the emotive unification-independence issue is played up.
在景氣、失業與一波波造勢動員的狂熱場合中，族群分裂的謾罵式選舉語言與統獨之爭，在在激化了群眾對立。