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In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
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Statement: He was losing his uncle. Choices: 1. His uncle was going to bleed out and die.  2. He had just found his uncle again. 3. The man would lose his uncle. 
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1


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Statement: for TV coverage it's pitiful Choices: 1. It was excellent for TV coverage. 2. They didn't do enough interviews on the ground. 3. It wasn't good as far as TV coverage goes.
answer:
2


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Statement: If Finkelstein were to apply his logic to Lee Atwater's Willie Horton strategy, he'd have to write, Not race but crime served as the prime scapegoat of George Bush's 1988 campaign. Choices: 1. With Horton's strategy, crime can bee seen as the main patsy during Bush's 1988 campaign. 2. Blaming minorities was George Bush's main reason for problems during his 1988 campaign. 3. Horton's strategy was central to Finkelstein's views on the prime scapegoat of Bush's 1988 campaign.
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3