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TOPIC: ARGUMENT148 - The following appeared in the editorial section of Monroetown's local newspaper.

"Mayor Brown was recently re-elected by a clear majority of 52 percent of Monroetown's voters. Her re-election, however, does not show that most people in our town favored Mayor Brown's proposal for tax reduction over that of her opponent, Mr. Greene, who proposed raising taxes to improve education. It has been shown that voters nationwide tend to re-elect people already in office, regardless of candidates' proposals. In fact, a local survey after the election showed most people in Monroetown disagreed with Mayor Brown's proposal. Clearly most people in Monroetown favor improving education and therefore approve of Mr. Greene's proposal despite the fact that they did not vote for him."



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In this paragraph, the author cites two opinion polls to testify his standpoint that Brown's victory results not from her tax reduction proposal, but from voters’ habit instead, and further Green’s tax-raising plan is actually favored. Whereas the existence of several twisted logical relationship in this article undermines the argument and renders it unpersuasive as it establishes.

First of all, the author adduces the contention that voters nationwide are ready to re-elect people rather than refer to their proposals, which is unreliable from its basis, to commentate the eligibility of Brown. Yet there is no evidence to show that people in Monroetown share the same voting habit as the national mainstream. There lies huge possibility that residents in Monroetown are highly-educated and enjoy a strong political concern, which encourages them to vote rationally. Thus, the author cannot apply the national trend to illustrate the phenomenon happens in the specific town.

Secondly, even assuming that Monroetown voters made their choice disregarding Brown’s proposal, the argument still lacks evidence to demonstrate that Brown’s tax reduction proposal is disfavored. Before all, the assumption itself overthrows the conclusion. Since people are just ready to re-elect the mayor, nobody will care for the tax plan.

Moreover, the quotation of the local survey so as to infer most Monroetown voters' disagreement with Brown's proposal lends no help, if not drags backwards, to prove the author's point that people do not agree with Brown's tax reduction proposal. There is no evidence to tell the number of those who expressed objection to the proposal. Neither is there any evidence to imply the accurate number of those who are against tax reduction plans. Perhaps all the rest part of Brown’s proposal is better-substantiated over Greene’s. The citation merely indicates that voters do not agree with the proposal as a whole rather than the tax plan only. Therefore, the author has not established any sound logic connection between this contention and his point, for which reason ungrounded his argument.

Thirdly, there is not any trace to reveal the assumption that most people in Monroetown is approved of Mr. Greene's tax raising plan for education even admitting that Brown's plan is detested by the voters. Simply nowhere in the paragraph has ever mentioned local resident’s opinion about education, and it is insufficient to conclude that most people in Monroetown favor improving education. To justify his view, the author needs to provide concrete evidence of people’s favor towards Greene’s tax raising plan. Lacking proof of this kind, it is too haste for the author to sum up the conclusion. Further, it is far from proper to conclude that his entire proposal is supported even people are backing up for Greene’s taxing plan. There is simply no evidence to indicate the attitude voters hold for it. Thus, the two conclusions the author made both flaws severely.


The whole paragraph is composed of various logical flaws which void the argument. If the author intends to produce a strong argument to prove his view, it is necessary for him to give further evidence of people’s attitude towards Greene’s proposal, or his tax plan at least. Also needed are the evidence of local people’s election habit which may help to demonstrate the real reason of Brown’s eligibility.