TPP lost because they believed it was an easy win, I recall oakvale telling me I was an idiot to think labors could get 2 seats and that we should focuse only on swe. If rightwing turnout was a little higher, they would have lost.
Counterpoint on behalf of my party:
The real problem for us was your unexpected and impressive coup of recruiting Lief to run as a member of Labor. He was honestly the only candidate who could have realistically won a second seat for y'all, and we didn't see it coming at all. Lief swept the votes of virtually every Labor-TPP swing voter, whose first preferences Polnut and I were counting on. It's a TPP victory, IMO, because our two-candidate strategy worked even though you sabotaged our original master plan so successfully. It's also worth noting most of our campaign team couldn't give our full effort last weekend, due to things like university finals and focusing on Christmas (
).
Also you shouldn't sell your party short. Regardless of the details, you've now got half of the seats in the Senate (and only need to compromise with us in order to get a veto-proof majority on anything
)