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The American Conservative Union (ACU) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 political
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
 organization advocating conservative policies
American conservatism

Conservatism in the United States is a major United States political ideology. In contemporary American politics, it is often associated with the Republican Party ....
. It is well-known for its annual ranking of politicians according to how they voted on key issues, providing a numerical indicator of how much the lawmakers agreed with conservative ideals. These scores are often used in political science
Political science

Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior....
 research. The ACU publishes Battleline magazine quarterly to inform its members of issues important to the conservative movement.

Perhaps the ACU's most famous event is the Conservative Political Action Conference
Conservative Political Action Conference

Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual political conference attended by Conservatism, Activism, and Public administration from across the United States....
 (CPAC).






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The American Conservative Union (ACU) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 political
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
 organization advocating conservative policies
American conservatism

Conservatism in the United States is a major United States political ideology. In contemporary American politics, it is often associated with the Republican Party ....
. It is well-known for its annual ranking of politicians according to how they voted on key issues, providing a numerical indicator of how much the lawmakers agreed with conservative ideals. These scores are often used in political science
Political science

Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior....
 research. The ACU publishes Battleline magazine quarterly to inform its members of issues important to the conservative movement.

Perhaps the ACU's most famous event is the Conservative Political Action Conference
Conservative Political Action Conference

Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual political conference attended by Conservatism, Activism, and Public administration from across the United States....
 (CPAC). CPAC has an annual attendance of over 6,000 people from around the world. Speakers regularly include sitting and former presidents and other famous conservatives. Lisa De Pasquale is the director of CPAC.

This year CPAC had Rush Limbaugh, entertainer, former drug addict and disc jockey, as one of their keynote speakers. Limbaugh, whose politically inflammatory rhetoric was distributed live on cable television's CNN, appeared to please many of the event's attendees when he attacked President Obama's agenda and praised the Conservative agenda.

The ACU was founded in December 1964 following the defeat of Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater was a five-term United States Senate from Arizona and the History of the United States Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the U.S....
 in that year's presidential election, with Donald C. Bruce
Donald C. Bruce

Donald Cogley Bruce was a United States House of Representatives from Indiana and a founder of the American Conservative Union.Born in Troutville, Pennsylvania, Bruce graduated from high school in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and attended Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio....
 serving as its first chairman. The current chairman of the ACU is David Keene
David Keene

David A. Keene is the current chairman of the American Conservative Union, a position which he has held since 1984. Additionally, he is the managing associate at the Carmen Group Lobbying, a lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C....
, who has held that position since 1984.

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