Butterfly effects in the history of elections?

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Nixon not wanting his GOP allies distracted by a nasty du Pont-Haskell primary during his presidential re-election year is the only reason that anybody knows who Joe Biden is today, a half-century & 9 presidents later.

What election was this?

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An election I don’t think anyone noticed but in SC last cycle Dillon’s state representative Jackie Hayes had a primary opponent and drew a lot of moderate republicans into the democratic primary to keep him in office.

In a world where Hayes wasn’t facing a primary challenge a lot of democratic voters (hi) and moderate republicans would have instead voted in the Republican primary. Rice was/is popular in Dillon with his work for the inland port. The numbers are extremely tight but if roughly 1,800 of Hayes voters instead voted for Rice in the primary he would’ve made the runoff, but with Eggman getting 49.9%, so I still think it would’ve gone to Eggman but Rice could’ve gone down swinging.