In a poll of a representative sample of a province’s residents, the provincial capital was the city most often selected as the best place to live in that province. Since the capital is also the largest of that province’s many cities, the poll shows that most residents of that province generally prefer life in large cities to life in small cities.
The argument is most vulnerable to the criticism that it
A． overlooks the possibility that what is true of the residents of the province may not be true of other people
B． does not indicate whether most residents of other provinces also prefer life in large cities to life in small cities
C． takes for granted that when people are polled for their preferences among cities, they tend to vote for the city that they think is the best place to live
D． overlooks the possibility that the people who preferred small cities over the provincial capital did so not because of their general feelings about the sizes of cities, but because of their general feelings about capital cities
E． overlooks the possibility that most people may have voted for small cities even though a large city received more votes than any other single city