article_snippet.sent: The polls predict Lib Dems  face a bloodbath on election day, with dozens of their MPs fighting for their MPs survival.
article_snippet.sent: Cornwall is a major battleground for the Lib Dems, with three seats coming under heavy fire from the Tories.
article_snippet.sent: Instead of battling to win seats across the country, the party has highly targeted strategy, effectively fighting 60 by-elections in constituencies where his candidates stand a chance.
article_snippet.sent: The senior Lib Dem, closely involved in the party's election strategy, said the campaign's focus was increasingly on between 10 and 15 marginal seats - some held by the party and a few targets - with other constituencies either assessed as safe or effectively written off.
article_snippet.sent: Assessing the election outcome, A party source said: 'Everything is so marginal, we need to get into the 30s' and the other parties need to sort the other parties out and we will see what the answer is. '
article_snippet.sent: There are now basically two possible outcomes to this election - we can either get a minority government or a coalition with the Lib Dems in it.'
article_snippet.sent: There are lots of marginal seats.
article_snippet.sent: There's a marginal outcome in 40 seats for us and if us won every one of those marginal contests we would get to 40-odd.'
article_snippet.sent: the Lib Dems won 57 seats in the 2010 election but have been hit by a slump in popularity after forming the coalition government with the Conservatives.
article_snippet.sent: the Lib Dems have built up a reputation as formidable campaigners in by-election contests, including in the Hampshire seat which the Lib Dems held following the resignation of disgraced former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, despite a Ukip surge.
highlights_snippet.sent: Lib Dems think Lib Dems  could lose 20 seats but still be back in power .