Are you serious....Al gore would be president if he could have carried his own State, or any other state, nothing special about West Virginia.
Yes there is, unlike TN, WV had up until 2000, ONLY gone red for the RE-election of Reagan in 84, Nixon in 72 and Eisenhower in 56! It hadn’t voted for a first time Republican since 1928!
It was about as reliable BLUE as you could get until 2000... when it flipped and hasn’t gone back.
Had WV followed its historical norms of nearly 80 years, rather than vote for Bush in 2000, you have an Al Gore Presidency. The failure to realize the flipping of WV is what Cost the Dems... and it was the precursor of what was going to happen in 2016.... As the Dems walked away from the traditional working class white voters... The writing was on the wall in 2000... and they didn’t bother to notice.