December 11, 2003 NBC’s Russert: W.Va. will be key in ’04 vote By Dave Gustafson STAFF WRITER Tim Russert, moderator and producer of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” told members of the Charleston Regional Chamber of Commerce that West Virginia will be critical ground for presidential candidates in 2004. “If Al Gore had won West Virginia [in 2000], he’d be president today,” Russert said Wednesday at the Chamber’s annual dinner meeting. “This was a state [Democrats] thought they had in the bag,” he said at a pre-dinner media conference. “For the first time since Hoover, this state went with the Republican.”...