YES Inverness - "We won't take no for an answer".
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YES campaigners claim to have knocked on 4500 doors in Inverness in their battle for the letterboxes.
Donnie Fraser, leader of the grassroots Radical Inverness group, said a tally revealed his members canvassed about 1000 houses for Yes Scotland, while the campaign's own volunteers targeted about 3500.
Better Together was unable to provide statistics this afternoon, but door to door canvassing has also been a big part of their campaign.
An afternoon spent door knocking with a team in Lochardil, Inverness, last week, was like hitting a core pocket of union voters with almost every householder declaring their intention to vote no.
However, Mr Fraser believes the Yes campaign’s own doorstep polls suggest the majority of people living in inverness would vote for independence tomorrow.
A survey of the householders Yes activists canvassed revealed 44 per cent would be voting 'yes' and 30 per cent would be voting ‘no’.
Mr Fraser believes nationwide surveys that put No marginally in the lead are not reflecting the real picture.
"I don't think they are asking the large section of the population who don’t normally vote. This is probably going to be a really high turn out, let’s not forget that," he said.
Analysts predict that up to 80 per cent of the population will vote tomorrow. Mr Fraser believes any high turnout will be down to the work of the Yes Scotland campaign.
Packed-out public meetings, town centre stalls and street-corner ceilidhs have been the order of the day for the last few months and, as has been the case with the Better Together campaign, thousands of people have given up their time to canvas their local area.
Asked what he believes will happen to all that energy and enthusiasm in the event of a ‘No’ vote, Mr Fraser said it would carry on.
He said: "My personal opinion is we dust ourselves down and get ready for the next one. I don’t see how this will go away. There will be a period of demoralisation but there is a huge grassroots movement now and that’s not going to go away."
But Blair McDougall, leader of the Better Together campaign, said everyone would have to respect the outcome, regardless of the result.
"The SNP have said this is a once in a lifetime referendum - that’s their slogan. So the idea that people can just push for another referendum is not realistic. We have seen the results of Quebec, where they have never ending referendum coming back and fore and that just leads to a long stretch of nationwide uncertainty. I do not think anybody wants this to keep coming back time and time again."
