KAMLOOPS -- New Democratic Party leader Carole James took her last-minute plea to Green voters into the Interior and the Okanagan on Saturday, hoping a final push would help close the gap in what she repeatedly says will be a squeaker election.

"Over the next three days, we're going to be reaching out to everyone," James said at a rally of about 150 supporters in Kamloops-North Thompson Saturday morning.

"To everyone who may not have voted before, who's voted Liberal, people who are thinking about voting Green, to say that this is a time for all of us to join together," she added, repeating an approach she first used on Friday night in Vancouver.

"This is a time to protect the resources that belong to all of us as British Columbians."

James' push comes just after a poll by Ipsos Reid found the NDP has stolen support from the Green Party, but still not the amount it will need to win.

The poll found the NDP has picked up four percentage points from the Green Party since March, but that the party still sits eight points behind Gordon Campbell's Liberals.

While James was trying to appeal to voters outside her base, she was also delivering a key message to her local organizers.

"I know you've worked hard. I know you've been out there knocking on doors and talking to friends and your colleagues, but I'm going to ask you to work harder than you've ever worked before," she said.

"Because this is about what kind of province you want. What kind of future you want for your children and your grandchildren."

The Ipsos Reid poll found 47 per cent of decided voters intend to vote Liberal, up one percentage point from a poll done by the same firm two months earlier.

The New Democratic Party has 39 per cent support, it found.

The poll was conducted from May 4 to May 7 among 800 people, and is considered accurate to within plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Canwest News Service