Not sure why anyone is bothered if it is close or not. All that matters is the final result. Both the Lib Dems and the Tories were going to suffer by a public who blame them for the cuts. The annoying thing is that if Labour had been in power then the same thing would have happened to them.
Wish the public would understand that cuts would have happened either way and voted accordingly though the closeness of MPs in general to the media is unsettling for politics in general.