#26 - A recent poll showed that almost half of the city’s

[Adam Tyson]

Here's what we said in the official explanation about answer C, Puppy:

Answer choice (C): If a fifth of those polled were not aware of the ethics violation accusations, that
means that four fifths of those surveyed were aware. This does not resolve the paradox, which is that
Walker’s poll numbers have not dropped despite the accusations.

The paradox is that despite the alleged ethics violations, the Mayor's support remains the same as it was beforehand. The Mayor has not lost any supporters, even though almost half of the city thinks they did something wrong. Answer C does nothing to help explain why their support did not drop, but only why a subset of the supporters were not affected by the news (they never heard the news). What about the rest of the supporters who did hear about the violations? Only answer A helps - it tells us that the supporters simply don't believe the accusations.