Lieberman loss bad for Republicans?

Washington insiders from both parties have long been muttering that George W Bush's Republican party is going to lose ground in elections in November. The only question, they say, is how much ground. Enough to lose control of one or both houses of Congress?

They may have had the beginnings of an answer on Tuesday night with , but the scalp that was claimed was not Republican - it was Democrat Joe Lieberman who lost to a political unknown. His support for the Iraq war was a major factor in his loss of the primary, experts say. Note that Connecticut is one of the most consistently Denocratic states in the Union.