[HamiltonJay]

WV actually is what cost Gore the WH...

Solid Blue state for Decades.... Even went to Dukakis in 88 and Carter in 80 (did flip to Reagan in 84, and Nixon in 72, Eisenhower in 56) But for an unincumbent re-election, the state hadn’t gone Republican since 1928!). Democrat war on coal, flipped the state and its been one of the most reliably red states ever since.

[Radix]

The distinction between the 2 states is that WV has 5 EVs while NH has 4. Bush won EC with 271 votes. If he had lost any other state at all he would have lost.