Their conservative leanings are part of a broader trend increasingly documented in freshman surveys, federal statistics, and public
opinion polls, which have found declining
rates of approval for casual sex and legal abortion among the young and a
rise in the percentage of teenagers who say they are virgins.
Most sensible Conservatives know that the Lib Dems are still gifted, hard working and canny campaigners and will do better than their current
opinion poll ratings suggest and certainly when those
ratings rise in a General Election campaign, as they inevitably will.