- Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:13 pm
#4450
Hey Ronnie - thanks for the question. Let's start with the stimulus and see if we can better understand the "contrast in reactions" it's describing. We're told that voters will almost always reelect someone following a scandal if the blame isn't focused on just their party (incumbent stays in office), but usually won't reelect someone if the scandal is blamed on that incumbent's party exclusively. So those are the different reactions: voting for an incumbent vs against an incumbent, depending on whether that incumbent's party is seen as solely responsible for a scandal or not.
So what we need the correct answer to do is provide a principle/rule that would produce that contrast on the part of voters. Answer choice E does exactly that by saying that when a party is to blame for a scandal, that party is punished. Meaning if a party is seen as responsible (not all parties, but a single party), then people vote against that party and the incumbent loses. That explains why elections have different outcomes when one party is blamed for a scandal as opposed to when all parties are blamed.
Does that make sense?
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