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Adding to the interest in the elections throughout the United States was the fact that political websites were also stops for the news media. One television station in Walla Walla created a website devoted exclusively to that state's primary elections which provided access to websites of every candidate in the primary.

What form of reasoning does this example represent?
QUASI-LOGICAL
ARGUMENT		 ANALOGY GENERALIZATION
ARGUMENT
FROM EXAMPLE		 ARGUMENT
FROM CAUSE		 ARGUMENT
FROM COEXISTENCE		 DISSOCIATION

What kind of fallacy undermines the reasoning of this example?
FALSE ANALOGY HASTY GENERALIZATION FALSE CAUSE SLIPPERY SLOPE NO FALLACY

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