West Virginia 2000

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The Gore campaign didn't make a proper effort in the state right until the end.

Not true; they never made a proper effort there. Mind you, turned out that that was better than make a half-hearted effort before staging a big, arrogrant "F*** YOU!" pullout from the state, like a certain candidate did four years later.

I'm not bitter you understand. Not at all. Honest.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Easly, the unions became less important the Pentacostal church and other cults became more important to West Virginians.

The part of West Virginia in which Pentecostalism is strongest voted for Gore. Try again.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That doesn't necessarily mean the Pentecostals voted for him, though.

Oh, true, very true. But it's a pretty clear indication that Gore's defeat can't just be blamed on an increase in the numbers of Pentecostalists in West Virginia (for one thing it's not even clear if there was an increase in their numbers in WV between '90 and '00; a curious contrast with just about everywhere else in the U.S).