Coalitions in American politics

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Someone (no idea if it was a poster here or an opinion piece ro what) once observed that the biggest difference between American government and toher governments is we form the coalitions prior ot the elections and other countries form a coalition after the election. With this in mind if fiscal conservatives wanted to get away from the religious right is there another group they could form a "coalition" with that would have a chance to get enough votes to win?