Question

1. I won’t vote for a political candidate whose moral life is questionable. When I learned that Congressman William Snyder admitted to having several affairs during his thirty-five year marriage, I decided to vote for his opponent. Unstated assumption: Explanation:

Answer 1

Unstated assumption (1): Snyder's opponent does not have a questionable moral life.

Unstated assumption (2): Snyder's opponent must be a good candidate because his opponent has a questionable moral life.

Unstated assumption (3): Snyder's opponent has never had an affair during his married life.

Explanation: There is an assumption that a candidate and its opponent can be automatically described in opposites, in such a way that, if we know a piece of information about one, we can infer the opposite to be true for the other.