Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: Since people vote based on who looks best on screen, we need to make sure one politician can't just buy up all the TV time to show off their face more than everyone else.

Conclusion: To ensure fair elections, laws should prevent any single candidate from purchasing significantly more media time than their opponents.

Reasoning: Voters are primarily influenced by a candidate's visual image and the positive emotions that image triggers.

Analysis: The commentator is making a leap from a psychological observation about voter behavior to a specific legal recommendation. For this argument to hold water, there must be a connection between 'buying media exposure' and 'evoking positive feelings through visual image.' If buying more ads didn't actually help a candidate project that winning image, the proposed law wouldn't actually do anything to increase fairness. Look for an answer that bridges this gap by confirming that media exposure is the primary vehicle for delivering these influential visual images to the public.

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Which one of the following is an assumption on which the political commentator's argument depends?

Correct Answer
C
C supplies the missing link: as media exposure increases, the tendency of a candidate’s image to evoke positive feelings at least sometimes increases. Negation test: if increased exposure never increases positive feelings, then buying more exposure wouldn’t advantage a candidate in the way the commentator fears, and the fairness-based policy recommendation collapses.
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