Question ID:PT65 S4 Q2 Passage:Syndicated political columnists often use their newspaper columns to try to persuade readers to vote a certain way. However, their efforts to persuade voters rarely succeed, for by the time such a column appears, nearly all who will vote in the election will have already made a decision about which candidate to vote for. Stem:Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument? Correct Answer Choice:EChoice A:Syndicated columnists influence the votes of most of their readers who have not yet decided which candidate to vote for. Choice B:The attempts of syndicated political columnists to persuade readers to vote a certain way in an election can instead cause them to vote a different way. Choice C:People who regularly read columns by syndicated political columnists mainly read those written by columnists with whom they already largely agree. Choice D:Regular readers of columns by syndicated political columnists are less likely to be persuaded to vote a certain way by such columns than are people who seldom read such columns. Choice E:People rarely can be persuaded to change their minds about which candidate to vote for once they have made a decision.