One of your classmates in POLI 30 finds a strong relationship between whether a country is a democracy and the number of COVID deaths per capita. They tell you that democracy reduces COVID deaths. Another classmates says, "no, there is a confounding variable". Which of the following would be the most likely confounding variable? Group of answer choices Whether survey respondents finished high school or not The votes received by the President in the last election The level of poverty in the country The number of political parties in the congress