Cameron is not pushing the Lib Dem agenda. He is appealing to Lib Dem voters, and ex-Lib Dem voters. As most ex-Labour voters (the largest growing sector of floaters) take a pit stop with the Lib Dems before moving on, Cameron is pitching at the largest target market available, and doing well with them.
His problem is the Conservative right wing which shudders at every PR success in the above campaign. On poverty Cameron hasn't gone left wing. He's actually reaffirmed Conservative thinking, and developed it by saying that The State has not the answers to poverty. But no one looks at what he's actually saying - only at the headlines. Of course he sounds left wing. That's the whole idea!
His other problem is the EU-backed Murdoch media. Like IDS and Thatcher before him, unless Cameron bows down to the EU, he'll get a kicking from the Murdoch quarter. The EU Competition Commissioner decides whether Murdoch can keep his media privileges or not. If Murdoch doesn't keep Cameron out of power, the EU might trade with another ambitious entrepreneur, and split away some Murdoch privileges. Will Richard Branson become the next one to prevent Britain escaping the clutches of Brussels?
If Cameron's own people realised why Murdoch was hunting Cameron - because he is alleged to be a europsceptic by those in the know (Ed Balls etc) - they would be very satisfied with his leadership. Meanwhile Farage thinks he's going to pick up lorry loads of Conservative votes. As usual he probably will at the Euro elections. At the GE, Conservatives will return to the fold despite their ruffled feathers.
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