Diagramming this question only took me 11 minutes but I got it right! In the last practice question, i made a stupid mistake and didn't write every option from the chain which made me get the question wrong. I MADE SURE to write down every possibility plus negations this time.

This is what my diagram (Lawgic) looked like:

I ended up making one mistake (that I know of) when writing answer choice E into Lawgic. I mistook AND for OR, but luckily it did not effect my choice because I knew A-D were right.

I needed this win today!

Good luck studying, everybody!

I also thought this at first! But, when looking more into it we can tell that "them" is referring to the personal attacks and not the editorialists. The sentence reads "many editorialists criticize these attacks BUT most voters pay them scant attention.

So the sentence is simply arguing that even though the editorialists criticize these attacks, most voters do not pay attention to the attacks.

I think the placement and use of the word "but" here is why we can tell we aren't referring to the editorialists. If "but" was changed to "and", then I could see how "them" now is a referential for the editorialists.