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[jangojess]

Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum, one of only two women in the U.S. Senate in 1992, said she did not so much wish for more women senators but more moderate Republican ones.

(A) did not so much wish for more women senators but more moderate Republican ones
(B) wished not so much for more senators who were women than moderate Republicans
(C) did not wish so much for more women senators as for more moderate Republicans
(D) did not wish for more women senators so much as moderate Republicans
(E) wished for more senators who are moderate Republicans than women

OA - C
My Choice - A

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Here the idiom so X as prevails

[must82]

The right idiom is "so much X .............as Y ............"

so answer is C.

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What did that sentence really mean??

Did it mean that she did not want women senators at all or

did it mean that she did not want women senators so many as compared to the republic ones...

[vinodsundaram]

Ideally, the sentence implies she wishes to have more moderate republican senate members than having more women senate members.
E makes a wrong comparison between republican senators and women.

The idiom so x as ..

IMO C.