Yes, but he was the only one who threw away what should have been an easy victory.
If your team needs to win one game out of three and they lose all three -- twice to tough competition and once to some pathetic scrub team -- is there going to be a bit of difference in the post-game locker-room speech in that last case?
Allen had everything including the kitchen sink thrown at him, the fact he lost by 10k votes is a testament to him. Lets also remember that jim webb is a very conservative democrat, he's not some flaming liberal.