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.

Statement: uh certainly not presidential but but quite possibly VP and here they are they they know very well they can't do it because if they do it's going to split the party and if they do it they're going to alienate a whole bunch of others so i mean they were stuck one way or the other yeah it was an interesting thing i was laughing through the whole thing uh Choices: 1. Most people agreed with me that it was hilarious.  2. They're in a bit of a catch-22.  3. I thought it was extremely boring and dull. 
1

Statement: Individuals' claims to their wealth and income must of course be balanced by the need to finance governmental activities, no matter how few and inconsequential they may be. Choices: 1. The government must be funded. 2. The government has no claim to individuals' wealth and income. 3. Government financing has been increasing as a proportion of individuals' earnings.
3

Statement: uh-huh and all on the job too you know it had gotten that bad Choices: 1. While things were good at first, they worsened over time. 2. The job improved all the time. 3. Things in the job were pretty terrible.

1