| − | '''CPAC''', Conservative Political Action Conference, has traditionally been the largest annual gathering of [[conservatives]], but consisting of overwhelmingly male college students. CPAC traditionally met in Washington, D.C., in February or March, with exceeding 10,000 in attendance. CPAC outgrew the largest hotels in D.C., and in 2014 and 2015 met in the massive Marriott Gaylord hotel in National Harbor, Maryland. | + | '''CPAC''', Conservative Political Action Conference, has traditionally been the largest annual gathering of [[conservatives]], but consisting of overwhelmingly male college students. CPAC traditionally met in Washington, D.C., in February or March, with exceeding 10,000 in attendance. CPAC outgrew the largest hotels in D.C., and in 2014, 2015, and 2016 met in the massive Marriott Gaylord hotel in National Harbor, Maryland. [[Donald Trump]] canceled his appearance at CPAC in early March 2016. |
| | Students for Life is largest annual conservative conference that has balance between men and women in attendance. It sells out with its annual conference of 2000 in D.C., around the time of the [[March for Life]]. It also succeeds without the libertarian and big money dominance that increasingly plagues CPAC. But CPAC does remain a good counterweight to the [[neocons]] who dominate the [[Fox News Channel]]. | | Students for Life is largest annual conservative conference that has balance between men and women in attendance. It sells out with its annual conference of 2000 in D.C., around the time of the [[March for Life]]. It also succeeds without the libertarian and big money dominance that increasingly plagues CPAC. But CPAC does remain a good counterweight to the [[neocons]] who dominate the [[Fox News Channel]]. |