Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that the 2000 election was "an event that shed light on the flawed Electoral College system"? A.
This was only the fourth election in the history of the United States in which a president won the election without winning the popular vote.
B.
George W. Bush was declared the winner of the state of Florida by a margin of just 537 votes after the recount.
C.
Preliminary results from Election Day were so close that a recount was ordered in the state of Florida.
D.
Following this conclusion, Bush won the election with 271 electoral votes, though he had over 500,000 fewer popular votes than Gore.

Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. what reasoning does machiavelli use in this passage? machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by first introducing the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with evidence. machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by starting with statistical evidence and then concluding that rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by first presenting an observed pattern of details and then concluding that new rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by starting with the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with short narratives.