YES. Exactly. You NEVER want to be FIRST to report if you are going to cheat. Cause you don't know HOW many you need. And worse if you OVER cheat it will be obvious. You can't cheat a 2% or greater trend.
It shows up on the bell curve and anyone who knows a little about median and mean can go WOAH!!
So you sandbag it, wait and then YOUR base shows up and then you can move 5% or more... but not if you already HAD a trend from which to baseline it.
UNITED STATES SENATOR
71 of 325 Districts Reported
REPUBLICAN PARTY
MICHAEL N. CASTLE 5194 187 5381 44 . 1 %
CHRISTINE O’DONNELL 6661 170 6831 55 . 9 %