critical reasoning

Question

According to the last pre-election poll in Whippleton, most voters believe that the three problems government needs to address, in order of importance, are pollution, crime, and unemployment. Yet in the election, candidates from parties perceived as strongly against pollution were defeated, while those elected were all from parties with a history of opposing legislation designed to reduce pollution. These results should not be taken to indicate that the poll was inaccurate, however, since __________. 
Which of the following most logically completes the passage? 
A) some voters in Whippleton do not believe that pollution needs to be reduced 
B) every candidate who was defeated had a strong anti-pollution record 
C) there were no issues other than crime, unemployment, and pollution on which the candidates had significant differences of opinion 
D) all the candidates who were elected were perceived as being stronger against both crime and unemployment than the candidates who were defeat 
E) many of the people who voted in the election refused to participate in the poll

siddhantvarma · Answer

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