"Some houses in my neighborhood posted signs announcing their support for Democrat candidates in the last election. So I concluded that Americans will vote mostly for Democrat candidates" commits the fallacy of

A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority


A

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