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The process of “gerrymandering,” or manipulating voter-district boundaries so that one party gains a considerable advantage in a district over another, is making the modern political climate more divisive than ever. It ensures that people with likeminded ideals end up densely packed in the same districts, and those people then elect officials who also share those likeminded ideals. These elected officials are less prone to compromise, and this creates an unnecessary and harmful divide between parties.
Assuming all the following statements are true, which would most significantly weaken the argument made above?
(A) Gerrymandering sets up an unfair advantage by creating some districts that are nearly guaranteed to vote for a particular party, thereby freeing up more time and resources for that party to campaign elsewhere.
(B) People with likeminded ideals have an innate desire to live alongside others who share similar belief systems, regardless of their political affiliation.
(C) All elected officials are typically strong in their convictions.
(D) When people with likeminded ideals live in the same district, they tend to continuously elect politicians with very similar beliefs.
(E) Gerrymandering can be executed by both political parties.
Assuming all the following statements are true, which would most significantly weaken the argument made above?
(A) Gerrymandering sets up an unfair advantage by creating some districts that are nearly guaranteed to vote for a particular party, thereby freeing up more time and resources for that party to campaign elsewhere.
(B) People with likeminded ideals have an innate desire to live alongside others who share similar belief systems, regardless of their political affiliation.
(C) All elected officials are typically strong in their convictions.
(D) When people with likeminded ideals live in the same district, they tend to continuously elect politicians with very similar beliefs.
(E) Gerrymandering can be executed by both political parties.
B should be the answer.
The conclusion is that the unnecessary and harmful divide is created amongst parties because of gerrymandering.
Option B suggests that people with like minded ideas ( who take part in gerry mandering ) are more inclined to stay with others irrespective of their political lineage.
Hence we can say that the unnecessary and harmful divide is NOT created amongst parties because of gerrymandering.
B is the weakener and should be the answer.
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The conclusion is that the unnecessary and harmful divide is created amongst parties because of gerrymandering.
Option B suggests that people with like minded ideas ( who take part in gerry mandering ) are more inclined to stay with others irrespective of their political lineage.
Hence we can say that the unnecessary and harmful divide is NOT created amongst parties because of gerrymandering.
B is the weakener and should be the answer.
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Conclusion:
Politicians elected at majority in a district, don't compromise-> making the divide between parties more strong, thus Gerrymandering is bad.
Weaken the idea.
Something that breaks the connection between --> voter segregation and the stand of politicians.
A- Not related
B- Doesn't talk about politicians and their stand etc
C- All politicians have strong convictions --> so irrespective of whether you are majority voted or not you will NOT compromise. So it weakens the reasoning that --> Since you are majority voted you tend not to compromise leading to divisiveness.
D- re-stating the premise
E- kinda strengthening the argument?
Politicians elected at majority in a district, don't compromise-> making the divide between parties more strong, thus Gerrymandering is bad.
Weaken the idea.
Something that breaks the connection between --> voter segregation and the stand of politicians.
A- Not related
B- Doesn't talk about politicians and their stand etc
C- All politicians have strong convictions --> so irrespective of whether you are majority voted or not you will NOT compromise. So it weakens the reasoning that --> Since you are majority voted you tend not to compromise leading to divisiveness.
D- re-stating the premise
E- kinda strengthening the argument?
