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What if Jesse Jackson had decided to launch a campaign against Bill Clinton in 1996 for the Democratic nomination? Of course his chances of beating a sitting president would be extremely unlikely. But could he have divided the Democratic Party enough to get Clinton to move more to the left at a time when he wanted to (and did) move more towards the right in the wake of the Gingrich Revolution? How could Clinton avoid an erosion of African-American support during a primary battle with Jackson so that it doesn't hurt him later in a the general election? Could this have given Bob Dole a better chance of winning the election in November?