Butterfly effects in the history of elections?

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Coretta Scott King criticizing Jeff Sessions’ record on voting rights in 1986 steers him from a lifetime judgeship to a political career leading to IC Mueller and the repudiation of Roy Moore.

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Paul Wellstone’s plane crash in 2002 leads to Norm Coleman becoming Senator, which probably wouldn’t have happened, and then Coleman contesting his loss in 2008 for months, depriving Obama of a filibuster-proof majority for several months considering Wellstone would have won in a landslide in 2008, with implications for Obama’s agenda and health care reform.

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Frank Murkowski appointing his daughter to a U.S Senate seat led to Sarah Palin being the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States.

That also led to Tim Scott becoming a senator.

What’s the connection there?

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John Fetterman won his first election as Mayor of Braddock in 2005 by 1 vote.

To be fair, that’s probably like 10% of the electorate in Braddock.