QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: Laws designed to increase the fairness of elections should not allow one candidate to buy significantly more media exposure than other candidates can afford.
REASONING: Voters tend to elect the candidate whose image elicits the most positive images.
ANALYSIS: Does media exposure lead to positive images? That’s the big question.
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- The stimulus doesn’t claim that its proposal will eliminate unfairness. It merely claims it will reduce one potential cause of unfairness.
- But how does the image become familiar? Does the candidate with the most exposure win, or is minimal exposure sufficient?
- CORRECT. If this isn’t true, it means media exposure does nothing to help a candidate’s image evoke positive feelings. That ruins the argument.
- This is far from necessary. The argument would not be hurt if the leading candidate buys only 99% of the exposure he can.
- This isn’t necessary. The stimulus only claimed that candidates with positive images “tend” to be elected.
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