First off, show off your differences from RUP. I think working with RUP on topics you agree on is fine, but what I’m seeing from HCP is basically that you have a lot of similarities to the RUP and not a lot of differences. Prospective voters are going to just see you as RUPlite and won’t really have any reason to vote for you over RUP unless they have issues with what RUP is doing. There’s a reason they keep pressuring you to join the RUP and given the current messaging HCP puts out, you might as well be the same party. Highlight more of your differences and that will help you stand out more.
Second, see if you can find some common ground with other parties like EKM, Pepe, etc. I don’t think you’ll really pull too many voters away from RUP, but I think catering to Kaiju and smaller stream voters will help push your numbers up to be an actual unity party and win the election. If you’re really lucky, you could potentially even get some smaller parties to drop out and give you their endorsement. I can talk to Andrew about throwing Pepe party’s support behind you and I would be willing to give you some stream endorsements as well as long as you consider what I have to say here. I think since RMK and Randomness are both PoliticsTOO mods, there could be room for dialogue there as well, since I can’t really imagine too many PoliticsTOO users would follow sloth’s example and support RUP. Basically your best bet of winning is to do the same thing Beez and IG did and try and recruit people outside of IP. I’ll do what I can to help you, but make sure to do your part and see if you can get some of the other parties to join you.