One article that i read over MEA which was supposed to be my Wednesday's blog post but is a little late was titled Dikta could have altered history. The author is Chris Chase and i read the article on Yahoo. So far Barack Obama has already had 1 easy win in the 2004 Illinois senate race which brought him to national fame and has started his path toward the whitehouse. That was a well earned victory that is now just a footnote in the career of baracks journey for the white house. But that victory wasn't so for certain as it appears in retrospect. For a couple days in that summer of 04 there was a big possibility that Mike Dikta could have been the republican opponent in Obama's first major election. Jack Ryan had won the republican primary that year, but dropped out of the race after embarrassing papers were realesed of him and his wife's  high profile divorce. The vacancy left GOP leaders rushing to find a replacement. In fear that the election was already lost the republicans decided they needed a big name for there canidate in order to turn the tides and Mike Dikta, The Chicago Bears coaching legend was the name. For days the press played the "will he" or "wont he" stories until finally he announced that although he really want's to he will not run as the republican canidate because he didn't want to give up his jobs as an NFL analysist at ESPN or as an endorser of a casino and car dealership. There's really no way to know if Dikta would have ended up winning or not butif he would have won, then Obama would be no where near where he was today and for surely would never have been running for a presidential candidate of 2008.