Linda McMahon has quit her job as CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. to take on five-term Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) next year. McMahon is the wife of famed WWE leader Vince McMahon.

The longtime WWE head will need to get through a competitive GOP primary against Rep. Rob Simmons, Peter Schiff, State Sen. Sam Caligiuri and Tom Foley, the former Ambassador to Ireland.

Appearing on MSNBC this morning, McMahon said that her experience as a businesswoman for the past 30 years would help her to put people to work.

"WWE is an entertainment company with PG programming," McMahon said. "But the issues that are facing us today are not what takes place in the WWE's ring. It's about debt. It's about getting our folks back to work. And that's what I'm going to focus on here in Connecticut."

A Daily Kos/Research2000 poll released yesterday found Dodd trailing Simmons, the leading Republican, by 4 points. He leads Caligiuri, Schiff and Foley. The survey did not include McMahon.