Republicans? Nice try.
After being excommunicated by his own party in the primary, Lieberman won as an independent in a state whose voter tally was only 26 percent Republican. He got 50 percent of the vote against both the Democrat and the Republican. He got a lot of Republican votes, but he also got a third of the total Democratic vote, and over half of the independent vote.
I have no doubt the Democrats have since come up with some rationalization to make this look like anything but a (literal) ass-kicking, but it would have to be a doozy.