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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Richard Blumenthal Takes Dive in Poll After Story About His Military Record
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe revelation that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal had told audiences he served in Vietnam when that wasn't the case has had an immediate impact on his standing in a new poll, cutting his advantage over one of his strongest potential challengers from 13 points to three. Blumenthal had been cruising in the polls since putting on the Democratic mantle in place of Sen. Christopher Dodd, whose growing unpopularity in the state made him decided not to seek re-election. But following the story about his military record -- Blumenthal actually stayed out of combat zones through five ...
Former Wrestling Exec McMahon Takes Lead in Race for GOP Senate Nod in Connecticut
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyLinda McMahon, the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, has taken the lead among the field of candidates seeking the GOP nomination for Senate, but all the Republican hopefuls still trail Democrat Richard Blumenthal by margins of 2-1 or more, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted March 9-15. McMahon leads former Rep. Rob Simmons by 44 percent to 34 percent, with 9 percent for economist and commentator Peter Schiff. Twelve percent are undecided. In January, Simmons had led McMahon by 37 percent to 27 percent. But in general election match-ups, Blumenthal, the ...
Democrat Blumenthal Far Ahead in Connecticut Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyConnecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who stepped into the Senate race when Christopher Dodd stepped out, remains a prohibitive favorite for election with big leads over three GOP challengers, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted March 2. Blumenthal leads former Rep. Rob Simmons by 58 percent to 32 percent, with 3 percent preferring someone else and 7 percent undecided. That's up from the 19-point margin he had over Simmons last month. Blumenthal leads Linda McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment chief, by 60 percent to 31 percent, with 3 percent preferring ...
Another Poll Shows Democrat Blumenthal with Big Lead in Conn. Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe polls so far seem to be leaving little doubt that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who became the Democrats' candidate when Christopher Dodd decided not to seek re-election, has a commanding lead over the three Republicans who want to be their party's nominee for the seat. Blumenthal holds leads ranging from 17 to 23 points over former Rep. Rob Simmons, former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon, and economist and commentator Peter Schiff, according to a Research 2000/Daily Kos poll conducted Jan. 11-13. Blumenthal led by even bigger margins in a ...
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