Alternate history: Mcblog in 1972

Dave Winer obliquely suggests McGovern would have won in 1972 with blogs.

What other alternate histories could be explored? Would the Nazis have been stronger or weaker in a blogging Germany? Would a blogging Alfred Wallace have outshown Charles Darwin? Would the blogging Buddha have swamped Jesus? Could KingGeorgeIII.blogspot.com have hung on to the colonies?

(Image borrowed from Scripting.com.)