Legislator: The recently passed highway bill is clearly very unpopular with voters. After all, polls predict that the majority party, which supported the bill' s passage, will lose more than a dozen seats in the upcoming election. The reasoning in the legislator's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument ['takes for granted that the bill is unpopular just because the legislator wishes it to be unpopular', 'bases its conclusion on the views of voters without establishing their relevant expertise on the issues involved', 'gives no reason to think that the predicted election outcome would be different if the majority party had not supported the bill', 'focuses on the popularity of the bill to the exclusion of its merit']