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Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon, wife of WWE owner Vince McMahon, resigned from the WWE recently to run against Democratic incumbent Senator Chris Dodd in Connecticut. McMahon, who is running as a Republican, will have to beat back a couple of other GOP hopefuls before she is ensured of facing off with Dodd, but with her name recognition, winning the party endorsement is not seen as too big a hurdle at this point.

McMahon is expected to run as a fiscal conservative and a government spending fat burner, but if she runs also as a social conservative, it may prove a hard sell to a public largely unaware of her on-screen roles on WWE.

In her WWE persona, McMahon has often played the cuckolded wife to husband Vince’s flagrant philandering ways, and that just includes the sketches that can be repeated in relatively socially-acceptable terms. Far more challenging will be defending the general content of WWE programming, a line of attack Dodd’s campaign is almost certain to leverage against the GOP challenger.

However, if Linda McMahon can focus on her fiscal experience turning WWE into a multi-billion-dollar company and how she plans to bring fiscal restraint to Washington, compared to Dodd’s tax-and-spend record, she could stand a chance. Word is McMahon plans to spend up to $30 million of her own personal fortune on the campaign, and will take little to no public money in seeking elective office.

McMahon has not run for public office prior to this campaign; she will rely on her private-sector experience in WWE to prove her qualifications as a leader. And that $30 million war chest may be enough to put pressure on the incumbency advantage Dodd enjoys.