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The Values Voter Summit is an annual political conference for American social conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States. The Values Voter Summit is hosted by the Family Research Council with numerous conservative organizations sponsoring or otherwise participating in the conference. In the most recent summit, 38 organizations and an audience of 2000 people participated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Fix at the Values Voter Summit )〕 The summit is usually held in September or October of each year. ==History== The first summit was held in 2006. Among the key issues for values voters defined by the organizers are opposition to abortion and to same-sex marriage, and a strong national defense.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Presidential Hopefuls Highlight 'Values' to Christian Conservatives )〕 The ''Los Angeles Times'' describes the conference as combination rally, revival meeting, political convention and bazaar."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=God and country at the Values Voter Summit )〕 The conference typically includes appearances from Republican potential presidential candidates vying for the support of the crucial social conservative base of the party.〔(Vying for 'Values Voters' )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Values Voter Summit Takes on Liberals )〕〔 Featured guests at the summit have included right-wing commentators Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, in addition to numerous elected officials and other conservative figures. Co-sponsors of the event included other Christian political action groups, such as AFA Action (part of the American Family Association), the Heritage Foundation, Liberty University, Liberty Counsel and Gary Bauer's organization American Values.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/sponsors )〕 Starting with the second annual conference in 2007, the summit began holding its own presidential straw poll, similarly to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and other conferences. The winner of the first presidential straw poll, of about 5,776 votes, was former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who would later go on to be the runner-up of the 2008 primaries before winning the nomination in 2012. After a "civil war" over the inclusion of the gay Republican group GOProud led many conservative organizations and activists to boycott the 2011 CPAC, ''Politico'' reported that a group of conservative figures were beginning to organize to turn the Values Voter Summit into "a full-fledged rival to CPAC" by expanding its focus to include economic and national security issues.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A conservative civil war over CPAC )〕 Several of the boycotting organizations are already sponsors or participants in the Values Voter Summit.〔 The 2011 conference was held on October 7-8, 2011. All of the major 2012 Republican presidential candidates spoke except Jon Huntsman, Jr. All eight of them were subsequently included in the presidential straw poll, where Texas congressman Ron Paul won. However, his win was discounted by the Family Research Council. Businessman Herman Cain finished second, followed by former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum. The 2013 and 2014 conferences both saw the same two candidates in the top two slots for the presidential straw poll for the first time ever, with Texas senator Ted Cruz and former neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson in first and second, respectively. In 2013, Cruz had 42% to Carson's 13%, and in 2014, the gap shortened with Cruz taking only 25% to Carson's 20%.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cruz wins Values Voter Summit's 2016 straw poll )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cruz clinches straw poll gold again )〕 In addition, the 2014 poll marked the first time in the history of the summit that a vice presidential poll was held in addition to the presidential contest. Carson won that poll with 22%, followed by Cruz's 14% and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal's 11%. With these two polls, Cruz set two records for the summit presidential polls; the first person to win more than one poll, and the highest percentage ever won in any poll since it started in 2007 (with his margin of 42% in 2013). The 2015 conference (the last one to be held before the 2016 Republican primaries began) was held from September 25 to September 27. This notably coincided with the announcement of the resignation of Speaker of the House John Boehner on the 25th. When Florida Senator Marco Rubio made the announcement, the entire audience erupted into applause at the news.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Values Voter Summit crowd erupts into applause at Boehner's resignation (Facebook video) )〕 Subsequently, the results of the presidential straw poll saw the same exact top three candidates for the second year in a row: Cruz once again came in first, with Carson in second, and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in third. Businessman Donald Trump, then the frontrunner for the nomination in all major national polls, came in fifth place with only 5% of the vote.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cruz again wins straw poll at Values Voter Summit, annual gathering of social conservatives )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Values Voter Summit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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