NEW YORK TIMES (US)
CHARLOTTE – As delegates streamed in for the opening of the Democratic convention on Tuesday, Barack Obama and his team were putting the finishing touches on a program that requires a different kind of political daring from the one they showed four years ago, writes the New York Times.
A day after fumbling a predictable and straightforward question posed by Mitt Romney last week — are Americans better off than they were four years ago — the Obama campaign provided a response on Monday that it said would be hammered home during the Democratic convention here this week: “Absolutely.”
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