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plus, you can watch our afterhours livestream conversation, where political editor christina bellantoniand hari sreenivasan answered the questions you asked on twitter and facebook. >> woodruff: besides jousting over domestic policy issues and libya last night, the candidates also zeroed in on china. jeffrey brown reports. >> i'll crack down on china. president bush didn't. >> president obama: governor romney invested in companies that were pioneer of outsourcing to china. >> brown: again and again last night, china was a focus of the two candidates, as they traded accusations over alleged unfair practices by the world's second- largest economy, and over what can or should be done to preserve american jobs. mitt romney repeatedly accused china of keeping its currency artificially low, to make its exports more competitive. >> china has been a currency manipulator for years and years and years. and the president has a regular opportunity to label them as a currency manipulator, but refuses to do so. on day one, i will label china a currency manipulator, which will allow me, as president,

jeff. >> brown: i am joined by presidential michael beschloss and christina bellantoni. the short and long of it. christina you were looking at the as it happen take from social media >> in tick we were looking at women this evening. one of the things that really stuck out was something that they just mentioned of course with this comment about women full of binders. that was obviously pretty colorful language. binders full of women. you know, that became sort of an instant meme on twitter. women were responding to it on facebook and the social network. and wal-mart moms were in a focus group. they were sending us all night long. >> brown: what were they saying a couple different things. they were not that interested in the response that the president gave about how mitt romney and george w. bush were different whereas that really trended on twitter. a lot of partisans were exercised about that. they were very frustrated by the working with candy crowley and talking to her about not being enough time. women did not like that >> brown: michael, the longer view. what echos

. >> brown: ray talked political editor christina bellantoni about states where the latino vote can affect. that's on the "political checklist" on our home page. plus, tonight's edition of "need to know" travels to florida to see how the campaigns are courting latinos there. sp >> warner: now, a new book by a former insider takes a critical look at the government's actions during and after the financial crisis. that fallout from the crisis and those decisions are still reverberating on the campaign trail this fall. sheila bair was a key player as head of the fdic, one of the nation's chief bank regulators. she worked with treasury secretary tim geithner, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke, and former treasury secretary henry paulson before stepping down last year. her new book is called "bull by the horns." judy woodruff sat down with bair yesterday. stheela bair, welcome. >> thank you for having me, nice to be here. >> woodruff: to get background out of the way who and what do you think is responsible for the financial collapse 26008? >> oh, there's plenty of blame to go around. i thin

and politics editor christina bellantoni will get feedback from undecided debate watchers at a google-plus hangout at 7:30 pm eastern time. you can follow every moment of tonight's debate on our live stream and live blog on our home page. >> woodruff: later in the program, we look at the politics of the obama administration's foreign policy. also ahead, the uptick in infections from tainted drugs; free trade and the american dream; and cuba permits travel abroad. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: u.s. supreme court handed democrats and president obama a victory today. the court refused to block ohio voters from casting ballots on the last three days before election day. changes in state law would have stopped early voting during that period for everyone except military personnel and people living abroad. democrats argued that amounts to unequal treatment, and a lower federal court agreed. today, the supreme court refused to intervene. more than 56 million americans are going to be getting just a bit more money from social security. it's part of

political editor christina bellantoni chatted with two undecided voters about the debate's impact on their choice in november. >> the way i feel after watching this debate, i don't know how much good it's going to do for me to watch, to be honest. the idea of not voting seems terrible but when i'm picking between the less of two evils, like i said, i don't know how much good i'm doing, either. >> i'm against the political apathy that i see in a lot of kind of -- my peers and, you know, this is a big chance to be able to vote and feel like your vote decides something and, you know, that people -- that someone out there is calling you wondering how you're voting. >> we'll keep up the coverage for the next debate, including the meeting of the contenders on thursday. you can watch all of last night's google hang-out and the debate in its entirety online. see how two analysts, one democrat and one republican, graded president obama and governor romney's performances. plus, on art beat, jeff talks to writer kevin powers. his new novel "the yellow birds" centers on a 21-year-old army privat

christina bellantoni, michael burb lost, thanks so much. back to you. >> before we go back to the site at lynn university i want to talk to you about another interesting thing which is that president obama kept saying repeatedly you are all over the place. are you all over the place. every time you have opted an opinion you have been wrong. and invariably mitt romney's response, mark, has been to say attacking me is not a policy. is not a policy. >> that's right. and i thought the president president made the charges. i didn't think he followed up on them. and i think in order to do that you've got to say you did on this date and did you on that date. and romney just kind of deflected it by, as i said earlier sort of the hurt approach. i did think that romney's strongest argument whether it was substantive or not was on china. that is a fight for the midwest, a fight for ohio. and china played by the rules, really does resonate with a lot of americans. and the president was wrong when he said the iraq-iran war was 20 years ago t was 32 year

watch his newsroom conversation with political editor christina bellantoni, plus a behind-the- scenes slideshow, on our politics page. >> woodruff: the newshour and npr are tracking how the presidential campaigns are spending their ad dollars to target specific demographic groups in battlegrounds like north carolina, our partner kantar media/cmag found that president obama and mitt romney have spent eight times more money this year on spanish- language ads than in 2008. npr's greg allen went to raleigh to explore how those ads were being used to target the growing hispanic population in the state, and the messages the candidates are using to appeal to this younger and economically hard-hit group of voters. he joins us now. good to have you with us. and greg, just to be clear. north carolina is getting a large share or at least a share of this hispanic advertising money but much of it you're reporting discovered is going to other states >> that's right, judy. i mean really when you look at it, half of all the advertising is being spent... hispanic language advertising is being spent in

. >> after the debate we'll talked to arrow shapiro and scott horsily in denver, and christina bellantony. >> woodruff: you can follow along online on our live stream and live plog. two very quick thoughts from mark and david. mark, it come downs to this. >> in a rare race it's become increasingly a referendum on the challenger rather than the incumbent. can the challenger mitt romney make this a referendum on the president. >> who has the toughest job? >> romney. maybe jim lehrer. format i love. much more demanding on jim but better for us. >> ifill: we're looking forward to what jim has to say tonight. it's a big night and we'll go to the convention hall and hoar from our own jim lehrer. >> lehrer: good evening, from the ma nag mess arena in colora. i welcome you to the first of the 2012 presidential debates between president barack obama, the democratic nominee, and former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, the republican. nominee. this debate and the next three, two presidential, one vice presidential, are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. tonight's 90 minutes wil