Whatever their respective merits, proposals to scrap Trident, abolish tuition fees and renationalise the railways do not constitute a coherent platform.
It may be that the candidate who can build a coherent platform combining both strains will end up as the Party's nominee.
A very coherent platform can tie these two things together: "we welcome all legal immigrants, a great part of America's heritage.
If Occupy Wall Street can come up with a coherent platform, then — in honor of the epicenter of the protest — the "Z Party" has a nice ring.
The second potential source of competitive advantage lay in creating a coherent platform strategy built on the economic logic of parts sharing.
(Then again, he told MSNBC that he wouldn't take nuclear weapons "off the table" for use anywhere, even in Europe. Trumpism is a posture, not a coherent platform).
"The fact that the Muslims don't have a coherent platform and voice is a huge negative for them at this critical moment," said Ahmed, a former Pakistani ambassador to London who now lives in Maryland.
Hillary Clinton, who has put together a coherent platform focused on raising the incomes and enhancing the economic security of middle-class families, has steered clear from addressing the very real danger of low growth over the coming decades.
The Salafis are a loose coalition of sheiks, not an organized party with a coherent platform, and Salafi candidates all campaign to apply Islamic law as the Prophet Muhammad did, but they also differ considerably over what that means.
The Pirate Party, a newcomer that was briefly trendy but has failed to create a coherent platform, also did not get over the 5% threshold.Fed up with experiments, voters have returned to traditional parties.
