Chatting with one of my sons this afternoon, our conversation happened to roam in the direction of the Senate race in Connecticut ...

A just-released Quinnipiac Poll shows ex-World Wrestling Entertainment exec Linda McMahon within easy striking distance of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal

Although I suppose I shouldn't have an opinion on a Senate race three thousand miles away, I gave it a tiny bit of thought -- spelled: G-O-O-G-L-E.

As the former WWE CEO, McMahon built an empire that peddled violent, sexually explicit material that glorified the exploitation of women, and the mentally disabled. In this regard, she properly pointed out that her husband was the “wrestling fan” and she was simply the “money manager.”

Yet, it's some of Ms. McMahon's “management” record outside the ring that is raising questions, particularly the use of steroids within the WWE in order to “bulk up” both the WWE wrestlers and the WWE profits. The bottom line for Connecticut voters might boil down to the fact that although steroid abuse was known to have run rampant under her watch at the WWE, her handling of the WWE funds (she and her husband are multi-multimillionaires) displayed superb money-handling skills and brought boku wrestling dollars into Connecticut.

Apparently Mr. Blumenthal has a blemish on his record too, having allowed the implication that he was a “Vietnam veteran” slide by several times without his having corrected the statement to be understood as “Vietnam era veteran.”

In any event, the Quinnipiac Poll shows Blumenthal, the Democratic nominee, with a 51%-45% lead among voters likely to head to the polls Nov. 2. This despite the fact that 72% of those responding said they believe Blumenthal has the right experience to be senator, compared with 39% for McMahon, the GOP candidate. Thus, although she's a political rookie, she may be the one Senate seat that returns the Senate to the Republicans.

I do wish though that Ms. McMahon weren't of the strong belief that the Minimum Wage was “unconstitutional” and will be among at least seven newcomers calling for it to be repealed. It’s so easy to attack those for whom seven-plus dollars per hour is a lot when your own family … well let’s just say … she and her husband have amassed seven dollars times a very large number.

Bottom line: anything can happen and both candidates seem like nice persons, all in all.

(A vote for Blumenthal seems safe, I'd say.)