The views and opinions of elected politicians on this crucial global

VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

In Sentence Correction questions testing comparisons, you need to make sure you create a logical, idiomatic, and parallel comparison (L.I.P.). In this example, the primary issue is making it logical and idiomatic. Because comparison idioms are so common in language, you must know the common ones: more than/less than, as many as/as much as, etc. (B) and (C) both contain a redundant comparison structure that is always wrong: since the comparative word “more” begins the comparison, you cannot also have “compared to” or “in relation to” – we already know it’s a comparison from the word “more.” In (E) the word “as” is incorrect as the proper idiomatic structure is “more than” not “more as.” In choosing between (A) and (D), which each have the proper idiomatic structure, you need to make sure it is a logical “apples to apples” comparison. In (A) you are illogically comparing the views of the elected politicians with the private citizens themselves – only correct answer (D) creates a proper “views to views” comparison and uses the proper idiomatic structure.