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Main Point—Fill in the Blank. The correct answer choice is (E)
The argument in this stimulus discusses the relationship between a salesperson and the customer, and then draws an analogy to the role played by a person attempting to gain votes for a politician.
The salesperson who makes a sale does not change the desires of the customer, but instead finds out what the customer desires and then convinces him that a particular product will satisfy him. According to the argument, persuading people to vote for a politician to whom they are initially indifferent is a substantially similar activity.
Based on this similarity, your prephrase in this Main Point question is that after discovering what policies the prospective voter would like to see in place, one tries to convince the voter that he should vote for a particular candidate in order to get those policies enacted.
Answer choice (A): This choice is a type of reversal of the information that could complete the analogy. Rather than showing the politician’s opponent does not favor all of those policies, the political operative would try to convince the voter that the politician could satisfy the voter’s policy concerns.
Answer choice (B): This choice is incorrect, because the task of the operative is to differentiate one particular candidate from the others, not to mask their differences.
Answer choice (C): The task of the operative is not to change the voter’s policy preferences, but to convince the voter that a particular candidate can satisfy their policy concerns.
Answer choice (D): While this choice certainly makes sense from a real-world perspective, it does not complete the analogy in the stimulus. Regardless of whether the voter perceives the politician to be of good character and to have interest in some of the same issues, the goal is for the voter to be convinced the politician will satisfy the voter’s policy preferences.
Answer choice (E): This is the correct answer choice. This choice completes the analogy. Just like the salesperson convinces the customer that a certain product will satisfy their needs, the political operative will convince the voter that voting for the politician will result in achieving their policy objectives.
Main Point—Fill in the Blank. The correct answer choice is (E)
The argument in this stimulus discusses the relationship between a salesperson and the customer, and then draws an analogy to the role played by a person attempting to gain votes for a politician.
The salesperson who makes a sale does not change the desires of the customer, but instead finds out what the customer desires and then convinces him that a particular product will satisfy him. According to the argument, persuading people to vote for a politician to whom they are initially indifferent is a substantially similar activity.
Based on this similarity, your prephrase in this Main Point question is that after discovering what policies the prospective voter would like to see in place, one tries to convince the voter that he should vote for a particular candidate in order to get those policies enacted.
Answer choice (A): This choice is a type of reversal of the information that could complete the analogy. Rather than showing the politician’s opponent does not favor all of those policies, the political operative would try to convince the voter that the politician could satisfy the voter’s policy concerns.
Answer choice (B): This choice is incorrect, because the task of the operative is to differentiate one particular candidate from the others, not to mask their differences.
Answer choice (C): The task of the operative is not to change the voter’s policy preferences, but to convince the voter that a particular candidate can satisfy their policy concerns.
Answer choice (D): While this choice certainly makes sense from a real-world perspective, it does not complete the analogy in the stimulus. Regardless of whether the voter perceives the politician to be of good character and to have interest in some of the same issues, the goal is for the voter to be convinced the politician will satisfy the voter’s policy preferences.
Answer choice (E): This is the correct answer choice. This choice completes the analogy. Just like the salesperson convinces the customer that a certain product will satisfy their needs, the political operative will convince the voter that voting for the politician will result in achieving their policy objectives.
