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So, I was reading Wikipedia's page on Al Gore the other day when I saw this:

Wikipedia said:
On April 3, 1989 as the Gores and their six-year-old son Albert were leaving a baseball game, Albert ran across the street to see his friend and was hit by a car. He was thrown 30 feet (9 m), and then traveled along the pavement for another 20 feet (6 m).[15] Gore later recalled: "I ran to his side and held him and called his name, but he was motionless, limp and still, without breath or pulse [...] His eyes were open with the nothingness stare of death, and we prayed, the two of us, there in the gutter, with only my voice."[15] Albert was tended to by two nurses who happened to be present during the accident. The Gores spent the next month in the hospital with Albert. Gore also commented: "Our lives were consumed with the struggle to restore his body and spirit."[15] This event was "a trauma so shattering that [Gore] views it as a moment of personal rebirth", a "key moment in his life" which "changed everything."[15]

In August 1991, Gore announced that his son's accident was a factor in his decision not to run for president during the 1992 presidential election.[72] Gore stated: "I would like to be President [...] But I am also a father, and I feel deeply about my responsibility to my children [...] I didn't feel right about tearing myself away from my family to the extent that is necessary in a Presidential campaign."[72] During this time, Gore wrote Earth in the Balance, a text which became the first book written by a sitting U.S. Senator to make the New York Times bestseller list since John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.[34]

Suppose that his son is not hit by a car (or anything else). Would he really run for president in 1992, when multiple strong candidates sat it out because they thought Bush had it sewed up? If he had, could he have won the nomination? The White House? Who would likely have been his VP choice? What would be the effects of a Gore presidency during the 1990s?

(Hey, at least it's not a Gore '00 question, right?)
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