BOTH the Yes and No campaigns have insisted they are ahead with voters and set to win on Thursday, based on tens of thousands of voter canvas returns from around the country.
Yes Scotland and Better Together both said they had the support of more than 50% of decided voters, but would continue campaigning.
Yes Scotland chief executive Blair Jenkins said the canvassed Yes vote had been above 50% for 10 days, adding: "I think we will win if everyone who tells us they're voting Yes votes Yes." He said volunteers would be knocking doors and helping the infirm to polling stations.
More than a million pensioners will receive mailshots urging them to vote Yes for their grandchildren, and Labour supporters will get a letter signed by 133 party members past and present, who say independence would create a fairer society.
Alistair Darling, the chair of Better Together, was equally confident, saying: "We will win, I know that because I can see our returns." He added that Better Together would field 1000 street stalls this weekend, more than twice the 440 promised by Yes Scotland. With around 500,000 undecided voters, the No camp said it would use the last days to focus on the impact of independence on jobs, pensions, currency, prices and public services.
Darling also urged Alex Salmond to distance himself from comments made on Friday by his former SNP deputy Jim Sillars, who warned of a "day of reckoning" for banks and businesses, who had tried to influence the referendum, after a Yes.
Commenting on Sillars' statement, the First Minister said: "The day after a Yes vote will be a day of celebration for the people, not reckoning for big companies drawn into the No campaign by Downing Street."
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