| − | '''CPAC''', Conservative Political Action Conference, has traditionally been the largest annual gathering of [[conservatives]], but consisting of overwhelmingly male college students. CPAC meets in Washington, D.C., in February or March, with roughly 10,000 in attendance. In 2013, it meets in March 14-16. | + | '''CPAC''', Conservative Political Action Conference, has traditionally been the largest annual gathering of [[conservatives]], but consisting of overwhelmingly male college students. CPAC meets in Washington, D.C., in February or March, with roughly 10,000 in attendance. In 2013, it met in March 14-16. In 2014, it meets on March 6-8 at the Gaylord hotel outside D.C. in Maryland. |
| − | Conferences cost money, and it has become increasingly difficult at CPAC for attendees to hear a socially conservative message. Students for Life, in contrast, sells out with its annual conference of 2000 students in D.C. in January, 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]]. |
| | In 2010, the CPAC audience demonstrates its lack of social conservatism by ranking issues in the following importance: | | In 2010, the CPAC audience demonstrates its lack of social conservatism by ranking issues in the following importance: |