September 29, 2009

Homework #10

People who accuse the Governor of not caring about the automobile industry are just using that criticism to hide their own partisan politics. Naïve citizens, who believe those accusations, fail to realize that sometimes a politician may seem not to care about one particular interest group, when in fact he is trying to enact public policy that benefits many different people and many different interests.

Which one of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for what the author says in the first sentence of the passage?

A. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between not caring about one specific group's interests, and actually caring about broader concerns and general public interest.

B. The Governor's harshest critics are members of automobile workers' unions, and politicians with strong ties to the automotive industry.

C. Many people who think the Governor doesn't care about the automobile industry voted for him in the last election.

D. The Governor is not a politician who talks about the difference between partisan politics and civic responsibility.

E. Sometimes a politician thinks he's trying to help the whole community, when, in reality, he just doesn't care about the concerns of one particular group.