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Thursday 18 September 2014

The Don't Knows hold key to separation: Final series of polls suggest future of the UK hangs in the balance

Daily Mail: A final series of opinion polls last night suggested the future of the UK hangs in the balance – but Alex Salmond will still have to win over huge numbers of voters who remain undecided to clinch victory. Pollsters gave the No camp a lead of between two and six points. The biggest survey, by YouGov for the Sun and the Times, put No on 52 and Yes on 48. Crucially, however, it suggested that just four per cent have yet to make up their minds - well down on recent figures. If correct, almost all the undecideds – some 170,00 or so voters – would now have to break for Yes for independence to get the go ahead. A Survation poll for the Daily Record, excluding the nine per cent who said they did not know how they would vote, put Yes on 47 per cent and No on 53 per cent. Last night’s polls confirmed that women remain more resistant to independence than men...read more>>>...