http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/british-voters-just-unleashed-an-economic-and-political-tsunami-224755British voters unleash a transatlantic tsunami
And it's headed for American shores.
By Joseph J. Schatz and Ben White
06/24/16 12:33 AM EDT
Updated 06/24/16 08:00 AM EDT
LONDON — British voters didn’t just shock the world and the financial markets by voting to leave the European Union hours ago: They also ignored President Barack Obama, handed Hillary Clinton a potential economic burden and injected new energy into the populist currents roiling politics on both sides of the Atlantic.
The surprise 52 percent - 48 percent result in favor of leaving the European Union — which British networks projected just before 5 a.m. local time — came after a tense night of vote-counting throughout the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister David Cameron later announced he's resigning, citing a need for "fresh leadership." The British pound rose and fall rapidly as the anti-EU “Leave” movement piled up big margins in the northeast, swamping wins by the “Remain” camp in London, Birmingham and Scotland.
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