Candidates swap blows over the Internet

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Correction: State Sen. Jack Wagner, of Beechview, is the Democratic nominee for state auditor general in the Nov. 2 election. His name was omitted from the list of candidates. (09/07/2004 at 7:25 p.m.)

When Jim Eisenhower's campaign got word last week that the Democrat running for Pennsylvania attorney general was being endorsed by the AFL-CIO, his staff jumped into action.

News media and campaign workers across the state needed to be notified as quickly as possible, said Nick Pullen, a spokesman for Eisenhower, of Philadelphia.

"We blasted it out relatively instantly on the Internet," he said.

When Eisenhower's opponent, Tom Corbett, a Shaler Republican and former state attorney general, needs to convey critical information in a hurry, his staff reaches for the same tool. "It's instantaneous," said campaign manager Brian Nutt. "One click of the button, and it goes to reporters across the state and probably about a thousand people who are in our e-ma...

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