The candidates passed on opportunities to clash with one another in their first debate, choosing instead to attack President Obama’s economic policies.
Politics and campaigns

The shadow campaign: Big money in this year’s midterm elections
Need to Know examines changes in the campaign finance laws that are resulting in floods of corporate money flowing to campaigns — without knowing exactly where it’s coming from.

Need to Know, September 3, 2010
This week on Need to Know: Record spending on political campaigns. An experimental jobs program in Mississippi. And the true cost of the federal bank bailout.