Yes voters should take solace. You can’t achieve a 61% to 39% split without being the beneficiary of a vast amount of collective wisdom of literally millions of reasonable people. Except for the hard casers, Yes voters will come to realise that.

It comes down to “hands off our fucking constitution.” For good reasons have Australians over the past hundred years have had to be mightily convinced to change it. It is nothing to do with being influenced by the US, we already put a great value on our constitution.