article_snippet.sent: While strategists admit strategists struggle to compete in the 'air war' as Labour and the Tories dominate the TV and radio bulletins, strategists believe Mr Clegg's enthusiasm for getting out and meeting people is paying off.
article_snippet.sent: The Lib Dem leader, currently on around 8 per cent in the polls, had to admit this was unlikely.
article_snippet.sent: The key is to get out there and get Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg talking to people in people ordinary environment. '
article_snippet.sent: Before setting off for an afternoon ten-pin bowling, Mr Clegg used a speech in London to warn Conservative plans to raise billions of pounds from the 'grubby hands of scroungers' will not work.
article_snippet.sent: The Lib Dem leader promised to 'spread the burden' of deficit reduction, with cuts to welfare and Whitehall budgets along with tax rises aimed at the very wealthy.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg set out plans for £5billion in new tax rises, £7billion raised from a crackdown on tax avoidance, £12 billion in public spending reductions and a £3 billion cut from welfare.
article_snippet.sent: But Mr Clegg mocked George Osborne's insistence that another £12billion can be found from the welfare budget.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg warned that it was 'quite simply impossible' to find savings on that scale without causing 'real pain to millions of families' and some of the most vulnerable people.