Minister takes Obama’s ‘Yes, we can’ strategy

Perth (United Kingdom): In front of hundreds of supporters shouting “Yes we can”, First Minister Alex Salmond urged Scots to seize the “opportunity of a lifetime” and vote for independence in his final rally of the campaign.Full of the same hope which infused Barack Obama’s 2008 US presidential campaign, independence campaigners greeted their leader as a hero, waving “Yes” banners, wearing “Yes” hats and even wearing football shirts emblazoned with the word.

Salmond warned there was no room for complacency despite polls showing the “Yes” camp could snatch victory. “Tomorrow for a few precious hours during polling day, the people of Scotland will hold in our hands the exclusive, solemn power to define our nation for the future,” he told the crowd in Perth.