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Originally Posted by Damien
It will be interesting to see how this translates to polling once we've had a few weeks. I don't believe it will lead to a temporary Yes bounce. I think we might see a slight uptick in Nos with Yes remaining the same. However that No vote will become a lot more solid and less likely to budge.
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There has been a 'yes' bounce.
A small one, mind you, but nonetheless.
This of course is exactly what the No campaign expected would happen, which is why they have started getting the hard messages out now, 7 months ahead of the vote, rather than in the last few days.
Salmond is being played off the field by experts and he doesn't even realise it. In playing the man, not the ball, he has lost an opportunity to counter the argument about the pound. He has gone for populism (Bullies!) and denial, which is a great rabble rouser, but in six months time the facts about the pound and the EU will still be on the table and Salmond's ammunition has already gone.
And the longer he sticks to his current line of denial, the more entrenched will become the idea that he and his plan can't be trusted.