Subtlety. It's optional.

Debate day today. The gloves are off and a whole bunch of headlines are attacking Nick Clegg.

Nazi slurs. Dodgy finances. Mud - which usually sticks, right?

But #nickcleggsfault is now a trending topic on Twitter, with increasingly surreal claims parodying today's papers.

So - at least on Twitter - it seems that a lot of people are cynical about the timing and/or truth of these claims. Twitter is self-fuelling and isn't an accurate snapshot of the larger world, but still...

There's a noticeable element of "I think we know what you're trying to do, and why you're doing it today...", isn't there? It may not have backfired, but it's certainly not an unqualified success, either...