The difference:

As I continue to look back on the election another thing stands out. It’s the class and ease in which George Allen in Virginia and Conrad Burns in Montana conceded their races to their Democrat opponent despite being down by only 7,000 and 3,000 votes respectively.

It was nice NOT to see these two Republicans attempt to hold on forever, calling for recounts, claiming fraud and doing whatever possible to keep their chances alive.

History would argue that if it was the other way around and Democrats lost by those margins, they would have moved into action to claim everything under the sun.