It is telling that a politician long adept at inhabiting any role that will serve his immediate purpose has been able to (i) ______ a disgruntled electorate, an outcome that perhaps speaks more to the electorate’s (ii) ______ nature than it does to his ability to be (iii) ______.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
(A) easily placate (D) fickle (G) persuasive
(B) only repel (E) disaffected (H) candid
(C) shrewdly court (F) docile (I) misleading