But a squeaker in Ohio where he dodged a bullet told the alternative story that he is still struggling to seal the deal with the party grassroots.
A deeply honest story told from alternative points of view from Kate and Mark who navigate us through the joys and heartaches of your first true love.
Details emerged last week when refugee organisations were told that alternative accommodation elsewhere in France would be supplied for 9,000 adults and families.
Her third novel, The Liars' Gospel, published in 2012, told an alternative life of Christ in which Jesus has become the Jewish preacher Yehoshuah, son of Miryam, who may or may not be a worker of miracles.
Other times, board members are instead told an alternative version of the truth, and they "usually have no way of knowing until it turns up in the numbers, or the engineering team quits en masse," says Clavier.
The patients also must be told of alternatives.
If the patient needs something the doctor knows is not available through the NHS, they need to be told about alternatives.
His decision must be "informed", meaning he must have been told about alternatives such as hospice care and pain control, and he must have asked his doctor at least three times to be allowed to die.
And the way you do this is by trying to tell several alternative stories that might explain what's happening in one market, and then ask what those stories imply for other markets.
"We continue to tell this alternative story about this very interesting ingredient that's come from a very unlikely source in the world of skin care," said Claudia Lucas, director of beauty merchandising at QVC. Solazyme executives say they will get to the fuel business eventually.
So for the rest of us, who want to tell other, alternative, more positive stories, we're just out of luck.
