Definition: 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.
Input: Statement: Gwen Ifill ( Washington Week in Review ) reports that Republicans have been emboldened recently by a widely circulated poll about voter attitudes. Choices: 1. The Week in Review stated that the Democrats had been emboldened recently. 2. Republicans have been emboldened lately because of voter attitudes, 3. The Washington Week in Review's writer recently wrote about the Republicans.

3