Another explanation is simply that the coalition has elided the Lib Dems with the Tories in many voters' minds.

ECONOMIST: The Liberal Democrats

In his 1996 speech to the Labour Party he artfully elided Britain's achievement in building an empire with its achievement in dismantling the empire peacefully.

ECONOMIST: The British empire

In his Printz opinion, Thomas gently elided the fact that the meaning of the Second Amendment had, at that point, long been considered a closed issue.

NEWYORKER: Partners

In North Korea, the death of Great Leader Kim Il Sung in 1994 elided into the rule of his son, Kim Jong Il--possessor today of the nuclear weapons his father once dreamed of.

FORBES: Freedom Beats A Global Retreat

What finally sinks the film, however, is the treatment of the supporting characters, who seem not only thin in conception (Singer, McQuarrie, and the co-writer Nathan Alexander elided the list of real conspirators, yet there are still too many taken on board here) but also dangerously overplayed.

NEWYORKER: Valkyrie