When comparing sections of a three-way contingency table, the dwindling of the measure of association indicates that the original relationship was:

Pe?a Nieto's candidacy during the 2012 Mexican presidential election reflected a. the influence of the U.S. government in Mexican elections

b. a return to the old pattern of Mexican presidents selecting their successors. c. the prominence state governors had gained in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) during the years the party had been out of power at the national level. d. the prominence Mexico's lower legislatures had gained in recent years within Mexican politics. e. the continuing power of the Mexican military in national politics.

Of the following, which is NOT considered part of the intergovernmental lobby?

A) local police chiefs B) ?local gas station owners C) county highway commissioners D) superintendents of schools E) mayors