When ColinWixted sought and earned the support of the JCP, the NLC did not even exist. And Jas, whom easily won the NLC Primary, got virtually no support from JCPers.
And we haven't even touched Senate races.
Yes, the last election was an anomaly, a split. But Colin got the future NLC, and the coalition was restored when Phil chose you.I got nothing. I never actively courted the JCP. I have been longtime friends and allies of some members of the JCP, especially Vice President Porce, but I never did any active courting of the JCP in any of my elections. The closest I came was the Progressive Primary in my bid for a second term. I was able to get JCP votes because I was the better choice of the two delegate leaders not because of some concerted effort on my part to create a "permanent coalition" between our two parties. I reached out to the JCP just as I reached out to the entire left, because I knew I had to in order to win.
As Mr. Moderate brought up when I first ran for President the NLC didn't exist. I was part of a very tiny centre-right party called the Radicals, along with Bacon King and Gully Foyle. The NLC wasn't created until roughly a month into my first term.
I also have to second what Jesus said. The PLP never ran very good candidates. Sensei was probably the best person that ran for any office. Polnut, for all his long winded speeches and high praise from some circles on the left, was very lacklustre and even if he had pulled out a win in the Progressive Primary I wasn't in a whole lot of trouble. I'm just happy that Polnut wasn't elected, or else we would have seen the Keystone Phil administration, in levels of activity, four months earlier.
Also having a bunch of really childish, immature, 13 year olds, like yourself, Evil Mexican Dictator, and benconstine, didn't help us. You tarnished the PLP's reputation with your antics, egotism, and overall unpleasant demeanor. The PLP was generally considered a solid, responsible, left-wing party that had lasted for over a year before you guys came around.
This is quite simply due to our strengths. The JCP is strongest in the Pacific and has little presence elsewhere. The NLC has a very strong presence in the Northeast, smaller but still large presences in the Southeast and Mideast, and a small contingent in the Midwest. The NLC is an eastern party and the JCP is a western party. Geographically there isn't much overlap where there could be competition between the NLC and JCP. Talk to Verily, the NLC has been trying to run candidates in all regions since its inception, we would love to get an active support base in the Pacific.
The NLC is also hurt by the nature of the population in the Pacific. Almost everyone out there is a social democrat or socialist. There are very few liberals, in the definition of the NLC. Unlike the Northeast and Southeast, where there has always been a strong base of liberals, in the Northeast they are the majority in the Southeast they were usually the opposition to stronger moderate conservative forces, the Pacific just doesn't have the base of support for the NLC. It's a simple as electoral geography and demographic patterns not some sinistre conspiracy amongst the ruling elites of Atlasia.
