Scottish polling round up

With what I assume are all Sunday's Scottish polls in, where do we stand? Looking across the board at all six companies polling, two of them using two different modes, we actually have a broadly consistent picture. Excluding don't knows, the Yes shares in the 8 different companies/methods are:

ICM (online) 54% Panelbase (online) 49% ICM (phone) 49% TNS (face to face) 49% YouGov (online) 48% Opinium (online) 47% Survation (online) 47% Survation (phone) 46%

Seven of the polls are clearly clustered around a small lead for the NO campaign, with the one exception that rather odd looking ICM online poll with a smaller sample size than their usual online efforts. A lead of just a couple of points in a single poll is within the margin of error, but in this case all but one poll is showing NO ahead, so I think we can reasonably say that the polls are giving NO a genuine but small lead.

If the polls are broadly correct, and if nothing changes in the last five days, then NO look like they'll have a narrow win... but of course those are two very significant ifs. It's certainly possible for a race this tight to change within a few days and there have certainly been occasions in the past when the polls have had a systemic error of a couple of points in one direction or the other.

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