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Restraint on the part of the front-runner seems like quite a strong signal.

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How's this for an analogy? The situation You're in a car that is racing towards a prize at the edge of a cliff. Your car is chained to several other cars that are also racing towards the cliff. You can hit the brakes and pull over, but if the other cars don't also do that, they will still drag you off the cliff. Maybe if enough of you all slam on your brakes, it's still OK if a few don't. You don't know how worried the other cars are about the cliff, but some level of potential concern among cars that the prize is right next to a cliff is common knowledge. What I'd do If you are at the front o

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