Prominent business executives often play

Answer choices

1. A

   No Impact14% picked this

   Many of the most active presidential fund-raisers and backroom strategists are

   This has nothing to do with offering a different reason for why business executives avoid running for president. And it doesn't attack the story that it's because politics requires compromise and power-sharing, which executives are uncomfortable with.

   14%
2. B

   Correct76% picked this

   Military leaders are generally no more comfortable with compromises and power-sharing than

   Why this is right

   This is a stronger idea ("generally"). Most military leaders are no more comfortable with compromises and power-sharing than are business executives. Yet, military leaders commonly try to be president whereas business execs usually don't. So this hurts the plausibility of the author's causal explanation. CAUSE EFFECT uncomfortable not gonna w/ compromise > > run for and power sharing president This answer weakens with Cause w/o Effect data points. The military leaders have the same supposed Cause (discomfort with compromise and power sharing) but they don't experience the supposed Effect (avoid running for president).

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

   76%
3. C

   No Impact / Weak: some1% picked this

   Some of the skills needed to become a successful lawyer are different from some of those needed to

   This has nothing to do with offering a different reason for why business executives avoid running for president. And it doesn't attack the story that it's because politics requires compromise and power-sharing, which executives are uncomfortable with. It's just saying that being a good lawyer and being a good military leader have at least some differences, which is an obvious truth and weakly worded.

   1%
4. D

   No Impact / Weak: some7% picked this

   Some former presidents have engaged in business ventures after

   This has nothing to do with offering a different reason for why business executives avoid running for president. And it doesn't attack the story that it's because politics requires compromise and power-sharing, which executives are uncomfortable with. It's saying that at least one former president has engaged in business ventures after leaving office, but being engaged in a business venture is not the same as "being a business executive", so this idea really goes nowhere.

   7%
5. E

   No Impact / Weak: some1% picked this

   Some hierarchically structured companies have been major financial supporters of candidates

   This has nothing to do with offering a different reason for why business executives avoid running for president. And it doesn't attack the story that it's because politics requires compromise and power-sharing, which executives are uncomfortable with. It's just says that at least one hierarchically structured company donated to presidential campaign.

   1%