Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Syndicated political columnists often use their newspaper columns

Syndicated political columnists often use their newspaper columns to try to persuade readers to vote a certain way. However, their efforts to persuade voters rarely succeed, for by the time such a column appears, nearly all who will vote in the election will have already made a decision about which candidate to vote for.

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

(A) Syndicated columnists influence the votes of most of their readers who have not yetdecided which candidate to vote for. - WRONG. Appeals to different set of people from what passage mentioned.

(B) The attempts of syndicated political columnists to persuade readers to vote a certain way in an election can instead cause them to vote a differentway . - WRONG. Irrelevant. 

(C) People who regularly read columns by syndicated political columnists mainly read those written by columnists with whom they already largelyagree . - WRONG. Tells nothing about the opinion of the voters/readers.

(D) Regular
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Statistics : Posted by unraveled • on 22 Nov 2019, 16:40 • Replies 3 • Views 3095

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