In a political system with only two major parties, the entrance of a third-party candidate into
an election race damages the chances of only one of the two major candidates. The third-party
candidate always attracts some of the voters who might otherwise have voted for one of the
two major candidates, but not voters who support the other candidate. Since a third-party
candidacy affects the two major candidates unequally, for reasons neither of them has any
control over, the practice is unfair and should not be allowed.
If the factual information in the passage above is true, which of the following can be most
reliably inferred from it?
(A) If the political platform of the third party is a compromise position between that of the two
major parties, the third party will draw its voters equally from the two major parties.
(B) If, before the emergence of a third party, voters were divided equally between the two
major parties, neither of the major parties is likely to capture much more than one-half of
the vote.
(C) A third-party candidate will not capture the votes of new voters who have never voted for
candidates of either of the two major parties.
(D) The political stance of a third party will be more radical than that of either of the two major
parties.
(E) The founders of a third party are likely to be a coalition consisting of former leaders of the
two major parties.
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Choose Life

B for me too

OA?

B can be the only option. But not through a sound logical conclusion but because other options were even worse..

As I said, I too was not fully convinced with B, however even the other options do not make sense
C -> The never voted people are never discussed in the passage
D -> Purely out of scope
E -> True in case of politics of my country but hey author never referred to my country
A -> Since the premise says that only one particular party of the earlier two parties would loose the votes, so this option is also negated, plus it makes an additional unstated assumption, that the 3rd party is a compromise.

That leaves option B, which is the better of all 5 evils