The Baffling Bubble of the Election

One explanation I've seen floated is that the referendum ended up being won on the postal votes that were cast earlier. That helps to make sense of the mood yesterday because if public opinion really was shifting back towards remain in the last few days, perhaps even after Joe Cox's murder. So it's entirely possible that there isn't a majority in the country today for British withdrawal from the European Union. It's a funny artifact of the way the election, the way the referendum was carried out over the last few weeks. The biggest bubble of all seemed to be among the people who actually had real money at stake. And then the people who are meant to be serious about this, the money men and