This may be the best-known danger in derivatives dealing: everyone in the markets knows that if shares stop trading or the share prices become much more volatile than expected, an option's market value will differ from the model's valuation.
If he dithers again, the argument goes, he is in danger of becoming known as someone who doesn't have the drive and focus to undertake a presidential campaign--or, to look at it from another perspective, someone who has too much sense to get involved in such goings-on.