During an election campaign, reporters are bombarded with dozens of e-mails each day from party war rooms.

Alison Crawford

To give you a sense of their tone, here are a few titles: "Conservative Broken Promise of the Day," "Stéphane Dion Discovers the Economy But Still Has No Plan" and "NDP Fact Check: Bay Street Harper's fuzzy math."

You get the picture, right? The war rooms distribute what they feel will be harmful information about the other parties and their candidates and leaders; or they correct what they believe is incorrect information about themselves.

Well today, perhaps because the debates have everyone jazzed up, there have been more e-mails than ever.

Late this afternoon, it became apparent, with this release from the Conservatives, that the war rooms have declared war on each other: "Liberal Bad Press Release of the Day."

Yes. A news release about a news release.

In it, the Conservatives correct an earlier news release from the Liberals about the appointment of a Procurement Auditor.

At this point, one wonders if maybe they should just eliminate the middle man (reporters) and just fire their missives at each other.

— Alison Crawford