I wish it were so, but really the Lib Dems have no hope of winning. The poll was of people who actually watched the debate (less than 10 million I believe) - the full opinion poll still has them in third place.
Plus our creaking electoral system is stacked in favour of the big parties - in 1983 the Liberal/SDP alliance (who later merged to become todays Lib Dems) won 25% of the vote and got 3.5% of the seats in parliament!
The best we can hope for is a hung parliament in which the Liberals can make a few progressive demands (such as proportional representation) in return for propping up a minority Labour government, but even that is optimistic.
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