Answer:
E.
Without political parties, electors would have to evaluate every individual candidate in every single election they are eligible to vote in. Instead, parties enable electors to make judgments about a few groups instead of a much larger number of individuals.
The correct answer is <span>A. Porter is writing social history because he is focusing on lives of large numbers of ordinary people.</span>
<h2><em><u>Assonance</u></em></h2><h2><em><u>or</u></em></h2><h2><em><u>
Consonance</u></em></h2>