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Linda McMahon's Primary Win Sets Up a Money-Talks Senate Race
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWhen Linda McMahon won the endorsement of the Connecticut State Republican convention in May, the wrestling mogul promised to "lay the smack-down" on her Democratic rival, Richard Blumenthal, for the Senate seat being reluctantly vacated by Chris Dodd. There were no wrestling metaphors from McMahon Tuesday night as she easily won the three-way Senate GOP primary, albeit with only half the vote after spending $22 million of her own money. But make no mistake, McMahon's free-spending battle with Blumenthal to become the state's first Republican senator since the 1980s promises to be a steel-cage ...
Linda McMahon, Former World Wrestling Entertainment Boss, Wins Conn. Senate Primary
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWrestling mogul Linda McMahon, who has already spent $22 million of her own money in this campaign, won the Connecticut Republican Senate nomination, setting up a November showdown with longtime Democratic state attorney general Richard Blumenthal for the seat held by the reluctantly retiring Chris Dodd. Blumenthal, who has been hobbled by well-publicized misstatements erroneously implying that he had fought in Vietnam, led McMahon 50-to-40 percent in a recent Quinnipiac University poll. McMahon had been expected to win the primary, but there were troubling political signs in her apparent ...
Linda McMahon, the Connecticut Primary and, Yes, Potholders
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyUNIONVILLE, Conn. -- Linda McMahon -- the wrestling entrepreneur and already the fourth most lavish self-funder in American congressional campaign history -- has no hesitancy in justifying the $22 million she has spent so far in Tuesday's Republican Senate primary. "I'm glad in this race I've been able to fund it myself and not take any special interest or PAC money," she said Monday afternoon seated comfortably in a booth at the half-empty Caffeine Cafe during an unpublicized smile-and-hand-shake stop on her primary-eve tour of the state. Drawing a contrast with typical candidates who must ...
2010 Midterms Round-Up: Races to Watch in Tuesday's Elections
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyLooking ahead at the primaries and runoff on Tuesday and the latest from the election battles in Kentucky, Texas and Michigan: Nomination Battles to Be Decided by Voters Tuesday in Four States Voters go to the polls Tuesday in Connecticut, Colorado, Georgia and Minnesota for contested governor and Senate nomination races. In Connecticut, former Republican Rep. Rob Simmons has surprised everyone by re-launching his dormant campaign for the GOP Senate nomination against Linda McMahon, the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment. Colorado features battles in both parties: ...
Free-Spending Linda McMahon Gains Strength in Connecticut Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican Linda McMahon, the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, is gaining some ground on Democrat Richard Blumenthal who has been the heavy favorite in Connecticut's Senate race, and she also has a safe margin over former Rep. Rob Simmons in the GOP primary race despite Simmons' decision to reactivate his candidacy. Blumenthal, the state Attorney General who stepped into the race when incumbent Christopher Dodd stepped out, leads McMahon by 50 percent to 40 percent with 10 percent undecided or preferring another choice, according to a Quinnipiac University poll ...
Races in Michigan and Kansas Launch a Busy Primary Season
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe August primary season begins in earnest Tuesday with the focus on Republican voters in Michigan, who will choose their candidate for governor, and in Kansas, where two long-serving congressmen are competing for the seat of GOP Sen. Sam Brownback, long a leading conservative. Both the crowded Michigan race and the Kansas contest between Reps. Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran, are close, according to the latest polls. It is also primary day in Missouri, but there isn't much question that the namesakes of two of the state's longstanding political families -- Democrat Robin Carnahan and ...
Rob Simmons Rejoins Connecticut Senate Race . . . Yet Again
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe on-again, off-again, only-sort-of-on-again Senate campaign of Rob Simmons is back on, with the Connecticut Republican declaring definitively: "I am running for the U.S. Senate, because I love my country, and I don't like where it's going." Simmons made the declaration at a debate Tuesday against Republican businessman Peter Schiff and third party candidates, a week after saying he wouldn't actively campaign, but would air ads as "public service announcements" to remind voters that he was still on the primary ballot. Simmons, a one-time front runner, suspended his campaign in May after ...
Flawed Candidates Make 2010 the Year of Living Dangerously
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyI'm betting both parties would love to restart this campaign season and call do-overs on more than a few primaries. Maybe the choices weren't ideal, but in some very high-stakes races, the candidates who won are showing why they probably shouldn't have. This phenomenon can be found coast to coast and points in between: Connecticut, South Carolina and Florida, Kentucky, Illinois and California. In some cases, the outcome of the general-election contests is unlikely to change even with a deeply flawed winner. But in others, we're talking about real impact inside and outside a state. ...
Rob Simmons-Linda McMahon Senate Bout Restarted in Connecticut
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySmackdown back on! Former Rep. Rob Simmons has climbed back into the ring in the Connecticut Republican Senate contest, restarting his campaign against pro wrestling mogul Linda McMahon. Simmons suspended his effort a few weeks ago but left his name on the ballot and now plans mount a statewide advertising effort. That will likely get in the way of McMahon's general election strategy of focusing on the Democratic Senate nominee, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the New York Times said. The seat opened up when Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), announced his retirement after nearly 30 ...
Richard Blumenthal Slips a Bit, But Still Leads Big in Connecticut Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyConnecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has lost some ground to Linda McMahon, his likely Republican challenger in the race for the seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd, but he still leads the former World Wrestling Entertainment executive by 20 points, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted June 2-8. Blumenthal leads Linda McMahon by 55 percent to 35 percent with 8 percent undecided, compared to the 56 percent to 31 percent margin he had in May and his 61 percent to 28 percent advantage in mid-March before the New York Times broke its story about ...
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