Butterfly effects in the history of elections?

[The Arizonan]

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.

[The Arizonan]

Not exactly an election, but Rep. Mel Reynolds' sexual assault conviction and resignation motivated Illnois' State Senator Alice Palmer to launch her unsuccessful bid to fill Reynolds' vacancy. When Parker announced her run for the U.S. House seat and declared she would not seek re-election to the state senate, an author, activist, and law professor named Barack Hussein Obama II decided to run for Parker's state senate seat.

Barack Obama probably would have found another pathway to the presidency if Mel Reynolds’s didn’t get convicted due to his star power.

[The Arizonan]

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?

Sarah Palin endorsed Nikki Haley for governor in the Republican primary and she got elected governor. Years later, Nikki Haley appointed him to Jim DeMint’s old Senate seat.