Oregonian nearly became President; lucky he didn't

Oregonian nearly became President; lucky he didn't

The game of historical "what-if" is always tempting to play, but in most cases, it doesn't have much of a place in real history studies. It's like seeing a car driving south on Highway 99 and trying to guess where it's headed. Sometimes it's useful, though - especially in cases where something terrible was avoided by the thinnest of margins. Case in point: the...