on the former vice president after he refused to apologize for citing his work with segregationists in the senate as an example of his political civility. joining me now is tiffany cross, steve philips, and tim wise. this week it has struck me that the same things that made joe biden useful to president obama when barack obama was running as the first black presidential candidate that had a chance at really winning is that he needed validation, and the people he needed to be validated by are not liberal white americans but a little more conservative, people who may have been archie bunkeringish in the 70s. that guy who was a former cop, that guy needed to know biden was okay. so those things are now the things that are hurting him. i m not entirely sure it s
presidential election. i can t imagine. the dnc has sanctioned 12 televised debates. with the first taking place next july. six of the debates will take place next year and the following six scheduled to happen in 20120, all of which we will be on vacation for. iowa, new hampshire and nevada will host a debate in 2020 due to the potentially large size of the democratic field. the dnc would split the debates into separate event owes back to back nights allowing participants to be determined by random selection. the party hopes to avoid the same things that happened in 2016. a california donor is planning to raise $10 million in the upcoming months to boost senator cory booker s presidential run. steve philips planned to
joining us now to discuss steve philips, now an author, civil rights leader of the founder of democracy in color. and peter is a contributor to cnn and the atlantic and a professor of journalism at cuny. let me start with you and ask us to give the overall picture, because it does seem to me it s a little bit mixed. democrats do about as well in term of seat gape it seems as in 2006. most of the districts in the country moved left. the times took one of these massive surveys and found out the average moved more than 10% left. but then when you look at it and see when you compare it to the gapes they made in 2006, it was not as impressive in term of this overall shift, and when you compare it to the republican gains in the election of 2010
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tonight on nightline, addicted to sex. millions of americans may be. but even as tiger woods reportedly seeks treatment for his problem, doctors are divided. is sex addiction real or is it an easy excuse to cheat? plus, lethal injection. doctor conrad murray charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of michael jackson and a circus gathers to watch. did he kill the king of pop. and nearly five years of katrina s despair it s a day of joy in the big easy as a super bowl champion rises in new orleans. we ll have a report from bourbon street. announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, martin bashir and cynthia mcfadden in new york city, this is nightline, february 8th, 2010. good evening. i m kinth ya mcfadden. we begin with a taboo addiction and the controversy around it. it s estimated that 6% of americans are addicted to sex, but is that true? or is sex addiction an excuse? there are doctors on both sides of the issues, chris conno