Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Whenever a major political scandal erupts before an election

This question is from LSAT test - PrepTest 5 (Jun 1992), question No. 21 section 1.

I have updated the OE in post #1. You could checkGMATNinja 's explanationHERE .

Really a tough question since the sentences in all choices are wordy and hard to follow the meaning. Took me nearly 6 mins to get E
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