They are running for 60 seats - the same number as the Lib Dems.
But look at the policies, rather than the man, and the Lib Dems seem less appealing.
The Lib Dems have 57 seats, which is down five on their result in 2005.
But the Tories are the Lib Dems' main threat in the majority of their 63 seats.
The Lib Dems warned that it could weaken incentives for people to save for pensions.
Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems claimed proposed legislation going through Holyrood was deeply flawed.
Could the Lib Dems and the SNP find common cause to derail the independents?
It is also a piece of political positioning ahead of the Lib Dems' Spring Conference tomorrow.
The Lib Dems' projected national share of the vote is estimated to be unchanged at 16%.
If the Lib Dems could have designed a Newcastle seat, this would have been it.
The party took three seats from the Tories and one off the Lib Dems in Chorley.
The more salient environmental issues become, they argue, the better the Lib Dems should do.
Traditionally, the Lib Dems have been much more luke warm about private health care provision.
What happened: The Lib Dems put everything into the campaign and it paid off.
The Lib Dems withdrew and earlier motion when it emerged Labour AMs would not support it.
That could result in many more defeats even when the Lib Dems don't split.
Despite holding on to Eastleigh, the Lib Dems' national opinion poll ratings have remained low.
Nobody denies that the Lib Dems did very badly in northern England and Scotland.
Personally I think the lib dems have the best policy right now, although it's not perfect.
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Lord Clement-Jones, one of the Lib Dems who tabled the amendment, welcomed the move.
Meanwhile the Lib Dems, who called the plan "patronising", have launched their own policies for families.
The plans have divided Tory MPs, but are backed by Labour and the Lib Dems.
The politics of this is simple - at least according to the Lib Dems.
The Lib Dems have launched a review of how it handles allegations of harassment.
Labour has challenged the Lib Dems to support its mansion tax proposals in a Commons vote.
First, however ornery the Lib Dems become, their survival instinct binds them into the coalition.
And the Lib Dems are in danger of losing more than their reputation for probity.
Jill Hope, who is standing for the Lib Dems, said Labour was simply "frightening people".
The conundrum of what kind of party the Lib Dems are hasn't gone away.
Their proceedings would be confidential but the results would be made public, the Lib Dems said.
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