Citizen of Mooresville: Mooresville’s current city council

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct62% picked this

   at least some other voters in Mooresville do not make the same exception for their own incumbent

   Why this is right

   This is saying "at least some people better not follow this guy's advice". This author said they were still voting for their incumbent in the upcoming election, as an exception to their broad antagonism towards the incumbents. If everyone made that exception, everyone would vote for their incumbent. In order to kick out some incumbents, some people better not make that exception.

   Skill tested: Must be True · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   62%
2. B

   Out of Scope14% picked this

   most of the eligible voters in Mooresville vote in the

   Out of Scope: voter turnout Too Strong: most Does beating some incumbents at the election require having 51% of people vote? Or could you have only 49% of voters turnout, and still have an election that removes incumbents? Naturally, you can have elections with winners and losers, even if only 25% of voters turnout to vote.

   14%
3. C

   Out of Scope: previous elections3% picked this

   few of the incumbents on the Mooresville city council have run for reelection

   We're not differentiating among the incumbents here. They're all incumbents, whether this is their first term or whether they've been re-elected already. So the author wouldn't care what proportion of these incumbents are first term vs. second-or-more term.

   3%
4. D

   Too Strong: all11% picked this

   all of the seats on the Mooresville city council are filled by incumbents whose

   The author doesn't need to assume anything this harsh. If you negate this answer, it's saying "not all the seats are expiring". This means, "at least one seat on the city council isn't actually on the ballot for this upcoming election, so it will be incumbent no matter what". Cool, but that's just one seat. We can still "substantially remake" the city council if 90% of the seats are expiring (i.e. being voted on in this upcoming election).

   11%
5. E

   Opposite11% picked this

   none of the challengers in the upcoming election for seats on Mooresville’s city council are better able to serve the interests of

   This sounds like the opposite of what our author believes and what a transformative election would require. The author hates the incumbents and is campaigning against them, so presumably she thinks some challengers are better able to serve the city. And the question stem is asking what's required for a big change-election to transpire? We certainly wouldn't say, "Well the one thing we really need to beat a bunch of incumbents is for none of our challenger candidates to be better than the incumbents."

   11%