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The recently announced dissolution of the Freedom Party, a major national political party, will not benefit the one other major national political party, the Liberty Party. It will, however, help third parties, including the Workers Party, who will now take more votes away from the Liberty Party in the upcoming national presidential race than would have been taken by the Freedom Party, had it not been dissolved.
Which of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the claim made in the last sentence above?
A. Name recognition is a better predictor of a political party's success than how well its positions match with public opinion.
B. Most voters had considered the Freedom Party and the Liberty Party to have very similar positions on most key issues.
C. The Workers Party only runs political candidates in local elections, including those for city council members, assemblymen, and mayors.
D. Polls indicate that most voters believe that candidates for third parties are more honest and trustworthy than are candidates for major national parties.
E. The dissolution of a major political party inevitably causes many voters to change their long-standing voting habits and vote for parties they have never voted for in the past.
Which of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the claim made in the last sentence above?
A. Name recognition is a better predictor of a political party's success than how well its positions match with public opinion.
B. Most voters had considered the Freedom Party and the Liberty Party to have very similar positions on most key issues.
C. The Workers Party only runs political candidates in local elections, including those for city council members, assemblymen, and mayors.
D. Polls indicate that most voters believe that candidates for third parties are more honest and trustworthy than are candidates for major national parties.
E. The dissolution of a major political party inevitably causes many voters to change their long-standing voting habits and vote for parties they have never voted for in the past.
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The recently announced dissolution of the Freedom Party, a major national political party, will not benefit the one other major national political party, the Liberty Party. It will, however, help third parties, including the Workers Party, who will now take more votes away from the Liberty Party in the upcoming national presidential race than would have been taken by the Freedom Party, had it not been dissolved.
Which of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the claim made in the last sentence above?
A. Name recognition is a better predictor of a political party's success than how well its positions match with public opinion.
B. Most voters had considered the Freedom Party and the Liberty Party to have very similar positions on most key issues.
C. The Workers Party only runs political candidates in local elections, including those for city council members, assemblymen, and mayors.
D. Polls indicate that most voters believe that candidates for third parties are more honest and trustworthy than are candidates for major national parties.
E. The dissolution of a major political party inevitably causes many voters to change their long-standing voting habits and vote for parties they have never voted for in the past.
This argument says that, due to the dissolution of a major party, a small, third party will gain a larger share of the votes in the upcoming presidential election from the remaining major party than the now-defunct major party would have otherwise taken. This is a convoluted phrase; in other words, it means that the Freedom Party might have taken 10,000 votes from the Liberty Party in the national president election, but now (the argument claims), third parties will take more than 10,000 votes from the Liberty Party in the presidential election.
To weaken this claim, we must find a reason that major parties (and specifically, the Freedom Party) are not vulnerable to losing votes to small, third parties.
Choice C is correct. This choice states that Workers Party candidates compete in local elections and may not even run a candidate for president at all. Because this choice implies that the Workers Party could not play a major role in a national election, it weakens the argument, which claims that a national party (the Freedom party) would be less competitive against the Liberty Party in a national election than would the Workers Party.
Choice A makes an irrelevant comparison. It is a real-life (but not a safe GMAT) assumption that a third party would have worse "name recognition" than a major party. Moreover, there is no information in the passage about which parties have positions that match public opinion.
Choices B also makes an irrelevant comparison. This choice is about the perceived similarity between the the two major parties in terms of their positions on major issues, a criterion that is never even mentioned in the argument, let alone linked to electoral success. Even if this quality was relevant to electoral success, we have no way of knowing whether voters are frustrated with this similarity and looking for an alternative or are perfectly happy with it.
Choice D is, if anything, a strengthener, not a weakener, of the argument in the passage. It implies that third parties have a certain advantage over major national parties, which may support the claim that the third party will provide serious competition for the Liberty Party.
Choice E is irrelevant; because there is no way to determine how voters "voted in the past," it is impossible to predict whether the changes will benefit or hurt the Liberty Party. It is equally possible, given the situation, that the people who once voted for the Freedom Party will shift their alliances to the Liberty Party or to the Workers Party, or that voters will switch from third parties to the Liberty Party; without stronger numbers, this choice cannot weaken the claim in the argument.
Answer: C
The recently announced dissolution of the Freedom Party, a major national political party, will not benefit the one other major national political party, the Liberty Party. It will, however, help third parties, including the Workers Party, who will now take more votes away from the Liberty Party in the upcoming national presidential race than would have been taken by the Freedom Party, had it not been dissolved.
Which of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the claim made in the last sentence above?
A. Name recognition is a better predictor of a political party's success than how well its positions match with public opinion.
B. Most voters had considered the Freedom Party and the Liberty Party to have very similar positions on most key issues.
C. The Workers Party only runs political candidates in local elections, including those for city council members, assemblymen, and mayors.
D. Polls indicate that most voters believe that candidates for third parties are more honest and trustworthy than are candidates for major national parties.
E. The dissolution of a major political party inevitably causes many voters to change their long-standing voting habits and vote for parties they have never voted for in the past.
This argument says that, due to the dissolution of a major party, a small, third party will gain a larger share of the votes in the upcoming presidential election from the remaining major party than the now-defunct major party would have otherwise taken. This is a convoluted phrase; in other words, it means that the Freedom Party might have taken 10,000 votes from the Liberty Party in the national president election, but now (the argument claims), third parties will take more than 10,000 votes from the Liberty Party in the presidential election.
To weaken this claim, we must find a reason that major parties (and specifically, the Freedom Party) are not vulnerable to losing votes to small, third parties.
Choice C is correct. This choice states that Workers Party candidates compete in local elections and may not even run a candidate for president at all. Because this choice implies that the Workers Party could not play a major role in a national election, it weakens the argument, which claims that a national party (the Freedom party) would be less competitive against the Liberty Party in a national election than would the Workers Party.
Choice A makes an irrelevant comparison. It is a real-life (but not a safe GMAT) assumption that a third party would have worse "name recognition" than a major party. Moreover, there is no information in the passage about which parties have positions that match public opinion.
Choices B also makes an irrelevant comparison. This choice is about the perceived similarity between the the two major parties in terms of their positions on major issues, a criterion that is never even mentioned in the argument, let alone linked to electoral success. Even if this quality was relevant to electoral success, we have no way of knowing whether voters are frustrated with this similarity and looking for an alternative or are perfectly happy with it.
Choice D is, if anything, a strengthener, not a weakener, of the argument in the passage. It implies that third parties have a certain advantage over major national parties, which may support the claim that the third party will provide serious competition for the Liberty Party.
Choice E is irrelevant; because there is no way to determine how voters "voted in the past," it is impossible to predict whether the changes will benefit or hurt the Liberty Party. It is equally possible, given the situation, that the people who once voted for the Freedom Party will shift their alliances to the Liberty Party or to the Workers Party, or that voters will switch from third parties to the Liberty Party; without stronger numbers, this choice cannot weaken the claim in the argument.
Answer: C
01 Nov 2014, 06:22
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Hi,
but the conclusion says third parties including worker's party ....
Even if the worker's party campaigns for local elections does not undermine the conclusion... i feel B is better option that undermines the claim..
but the conclusion says third parties including worker's party ....
Even if the worker's party campaigns for local elections does not undermine the conclusion... i feel B is better option that undermines the claim..
