What I was going for was to draw focus to the popover when you click on it, and then when that focus is blurred, to trigger the event, with the purpose of keeping all of the code related to this view within the view, and not touching outside elements. I'll try this out.

One of the issues with this as it stands now is that, when you browse to another view (or even re-render this one), that doesn't remove the click handler you've registered here, so this will end up trying to close a popover that doesn't exist anymore. It also might be hard to remove the click handler, seeing as how it's on the HTML element. So I'd really like to find a different approach here.