QUESTION TEXT: The mayoral race in Bensburg is a…
QUESTION TYPE: Weaken
CONCLUSION: Chu will probably beat Lewis.
REASONING: Chu is prodevelopment. Lewis is anti-development. Prodevelopment candidates won the last six times there was a mayoral election.
ANALYSIS: It seems like being predevelopment usually helps you win. To weaken this argument, look for some difference in this election that makes predevelopment unpopular.
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- This strengthens the argument by showing Lewis lacks city politics experience.
- This explains why predevelopment candidates win. But we’re supposed to weaken the argument that they will win again.
- CORRECT. This is a change that suggests that voters will reject the predevelopment candidate this time. Development recently caused problems and voters may remember that.
- You might have picked this thinking that it weakened the premise the Lewis is antidevelopment. But that’s not what we’re trying to weaken: we’re trying to weaken the idea that Chu will win.
(Also, working in a predevelopment office doesn’t make you permanently pro development. - So? He’s a predevelopment candidate now and predevelopment candidates usually win.
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