How do you get a Deputy Prime Minister to turn up to your event?

You promise flowers, it transpires.

Nick Clegg told the Grassroots Citizens UK event that he would love to come to more of their shindigs. You always give me flowers, the Lib Dem leader explained.

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Parties have spent months trying to reach tens of millions of voters. If only they know the election might be decided by just 29 people.

Spread betting firm Sporting Index has predicted that will be the slimmest majority after Thursday, with a incredibly tight election meaning the make-up of the next Government could hinge on just one seat.

Ed Fulton, political spokesman for Sporting Index, said: "Despite months of campaigning, many races are still too close to call and will hinge on a very small number of votes - turnout will be crucial. Every door knocked between now and 7th May could swing the entire election."

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In one of the more bizarre polls of the election campaign, voters have been asked by YouGov which Star Wars character they think high-profile politicians would most like to be.

Squeaky clean hero Luke Skywalker was the top answer for Ed Miliband, with 17 per cent, perhaps unsurprisingly given both have rather strained family relations. As for David Cameron, the evil Darth Vader topped the list, followed by Han Solo.

The poll did not ask about Alex Salmond, but after he jumped at the chance of performing a Yoda impression after the SNP won the backing of The Sun with its 'Stur Wars' front page, we probably already know the answer.

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Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary who is standing for re-election in Paisley and Renfrewshire South, has been given a rather gushing endorsement by David Axelrod, who masterminded Barack Obama's ascent to the presidency and is now a highly paid Labour advisor.

"My gut tells me when someone has genuine talent, commitment, integrity," he wrote. "My gut tells me Douglas ­Alexander has all those qualities. I hope the people of Paisley and Renfrewshire feel that about him too."

One minute, you're being compared to the leader of the free world by one of the men who knows him best. Then you remember that the polls predict you're about to lose your seat to a 20-year-old politics student who was at school the last time you held office.