Political butterfly effects

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Jeri and Jack Ryan’s divorce leading to Obama easily becoming a senator and then U.S. President.

For 2000, Elian Gonzales landing in Florida is the butterfly that (possibly) costs Gore the state even before the butterfly ballot and Republican corruption did him in. It wouldn’t have been close enough to steal.

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George Allen letting his hood slip and calling a tracker "Macaca" in October 2006 -> Democrats unexpectedly winning the Senate.

If Paul Wellstone hadn't died in a plane crash in 2002, we wouldn't have had Norm Coleman winning and then contesting a lost senate seat for most of 2009 and preventing Obama from having 60 senators.

Howell Heflin preventing Jeff Sessions from getting a judgeship in the 1980s because he was too extreme, so Sessions turned to elected office and played a key role in Trump taking over the GOP and then played the role he did in the Russia investigation.