Reply #9: Lamont won by precisely the same margin that Lieberman did [View All]

[mcscajun]

when he unseated Weicker. That was an upset too, and for mirror reasons.

from Wikipedia:
Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1988, by a margin of 10,000 votes. He scored the nation's biggest political upset that year, after being backed by a coalition of Democrats and unaffiliated voters with support from conservative Republicans, who were disappointed in three-term Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker's liberal voting record and personal style.