Posted on 03/03/2015 11:42:43 AM PST by LizHarrison
CPAC has become the “see and be seen” event for conservatives in new media. There is no debate about the fact that everyone – bloggers, media, internet radio talk show hosts, and everything in between – wants to take advantage of the opportunity to get close to all the conservative superstars at that conference. And the American Conservative Union (ACU) discovered this year how that can be a very bad thing.
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Interesting take. As a contributor to Breitbart, American Thinker, Newsmax TV and Talk Radio Network - I was able to again secure media credentials. But it was slow in coming. I filed 6 or 7 reports from CPAC - so it was legit.
Another cost factor is just Washington itself. The rooms are God awful expensive, even with CPAC rate - there are like 7 taxes on top of that - and of course food and beverage everywhere inside the guilded area are sky high.
And yes, the straw poll is totally irrelevant for first place, because the Paul Bots will bomb it. But second and third - among real CPAC type attendees - is somewhat significant.
Hold on a minute... how does that render anything irrelevant?
Where are everybody else's bots? How on earth can you complain that a poll is "unfair" because one guy gets more votes than anybody else?
Maybe the fact that a guy can routinely win the CPAC straw poll is significant.
Yea, that always worked for his crazy old man RonPaul. Oh ... wait ...
I don’t understand the point. Were media credentials slow in coming so the media wasn’t sure if they should spend the money to show up to CPAC?
As a hated-too-conservative out here in flyover country, CPAC seems to me as elite and insider as the regular Republican Party. I mean, the “grass roots” are Christians with traditional values so any event that wants to exclude them is more like the elites than the America that was once great.
This year, CPAC didn’t even seem interesting because . . . well, they hate everything I love.
I think CPAC would be more authentic if it was held in Oklahoma or Wyoming. I understand the whole “belly of the beast” thing, but I’d vote to move it.
Yes, that was the main point...the credentials not coming until you had already committed to a thou in hotel room fees, give or take, plus other travel expense.
But I think you must have missed that CPAC is under new, more conservative management. It is moving back in the right direction.
Well let me help you out here, because you seem to misunderstand mathematical proportions - not to mention the reason CPAC holds the poll in the first place - and so on.
It is irrelevant because it is zip zero nada indication of electoral strength. If it mean anything, we’d have had Ron Paul as President years ago. Did we? I didn’t think so.
Second, the poll is supposed to be a survey of CPAC attendees...as in conservatives from across the nation who come to see what is going on in the movement. The Paul votes are not that kind of attendee. They are there simply to vote for Rand (or Ron). And over 50% of the straw poll was from folks 25 or younger. That’s got nothing to do with reality.
So to your final point...routinely winning CPAC straw polls - just means the yutes have swallowed the Paul Bot kool aid....and they’ll do this and they’ll spam internet polls....but no one named Paul will EVER be nominated. Take it to the bank.
Maybe you shouldn’t be trying this at home....
Excellent post.
It would be very interesting to see a demographic profile of CPAC poll voters.
Ron Paul - appoint him as chairman of the Fed.
They have a demographic breakdown - I glanced at it (not sure where you can find it, but I suppose you can - and the big stat is that over 50% of all voters were 25 years old or younger in the straw poll. They have a low cost student rate for Saturday, and this is what happens every Saturday.
Interesting. I had no idea it was popular with young folks.
Bozell Denounces CPAC: ‘No Conservative Should Have Anything to Do With This’
February 25, 2014 - 3:33 PM
No conservative should have anything to do with this conference. If you do, you are giving oxygen to an organization destroying the conservative movement.
It’s a shame that conservatives need a national meeting. All this business should be a state issue where locals can police the enforcement of government activities without destroying our entire culture.
that’s from LAST YEAR....Brent was back this year.
With due respect, I find this a very odd sentiment on several levels. First, who said anything about "need" - Thank God as a liberty loving conservative, I can do a lot of things I don't "need" to do. I don't go to CPAC because I "need" to go, I go because I want to go - and it's a phenomenal networking opportunity among other things. Moreover, there are a lot of conservative meetings on local government issues. The two notions are not mutually exclusive. And third, we are where we are now - which is that the Federal Government in Washington is a bigger threat to us than any lower level of government. I'm sensing a bad day here....
Yes, very popular with young folks. Been that way for at least the last 3 years, and maybe much longer than that. I can speak on those years firsthand.
I hope that’s a good sign. Certainly a demographic we need to cultivate. Every year 2.49 million majority R voters die off.
I’m sure you enjoyed yourself.
If you’re offended by my opinion, just ignore it.
I’m not offended. you are making yourself miserable on false beliefs...
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