Sunday print exclusive: GOP's Senate shootout

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon stops to chat with Kayla Thompson, 12, Khaila McClintock, 13, and Vemise Louis, 13, as they braid each others hair during McMahon's tour of the Stamford Boys & Girls Club in Stamford, Conn. on Wednesday June 28, 2010. Photo: Kathleen O'Rourke / Stamford Advocate

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon tours the Stamford Boys & Girls Club saying hello to students Manny Azolin, 9, and Darius McGee, 9, in Stamford, Conn. on Wednesday June 28, 2010. Photo: Kathleen O'Rourke / Stamford Advocate

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World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. CEO Linda McMahon and her husband, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, appear in the ring during Vince McMahon's 64th birthday celebration at the WWE Monday Night Raw show at the Thomas & Mack Center August 24, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Ethan Miller, ST / 2009 Getty Images

In this May 21, 2010 file photo, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon, right, and husband Vince McMahon, left, wait for delegate totals to be tallied during the Republican nomination at the Connecticut Republican Convention in Hartford, Conn. The widow of a World Wrestling Entertainment performer who died in a 1999 stunt says she's suing the Connecticut-based company and its leaders, including Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon. Martha Hart, widow of Owen Hart, plans to file her lawsuit Tuesday, June 22, 2010, in U.S. District Court in Hartford. Photo: Jessica Hill, ST / AP2010

Peter Schiff, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate (AP Photo/John Woike, Pool) Photo: John Woike, AP / Pool, The Hartford Courant

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From left, Republican hopefuls for U.S. Senate, money manager Peter Schiff, Former Congressman Rob Simmons and former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon debate at the Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford campus in West Hartford, Conn., Tuesday, March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/John Woike, Pool) Photo: John Woike, AP / Pool, The Hartford Courant

Peter Schiff, a republican, is running for Christopher Dodd's seat in the U.S. Senate. Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Connecticut Post

Former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, shown in March 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Photo: Contributed Photo / Greenwich Time Contributed

Republican senate candidate Rob Simmons holds his dog Lucy outside his Stonington home on Monday, March 8, 2010. Lucy is 18 years old and now blind and deaf but gets around the familiar waterfront home. Photo: Phil Noel / Connecticut Post

Former Congressman Rob Simmons photographed in the Greenwich Time boardroom in Greenwich, CT, Friday afternoon, February 12, 2010. Simmons is running against Linda McMahon and Peter Schiff for the GOP Senate nomination. Photo: Keelin Daly / Greenwich Time