As Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic nominee Tom Barrett were busy debating each other Friday night, their campaigns went into all-out attack mode.
Both sides unleashed a barrage of press emails in real time, with fact checks, stats, links to past coverage and subject lines that blared “BARRETT FALSE ATTACK: JOBS NUMBERS” and “Scott Walker Debate Fact Check: Continues His Deceptive, Divisive Attacks on Milwaukee.”