Article posted: 9/3/2012 8:49 PM

Convention eve: Obama consoles storm victims

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President Barack Obama speaks with a resident as he tours the Bridgewood neighborhood in LaPlace, La., in Saint John the Baptist Parish, as he surveys the ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Isaac Monday.

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In an overnight reversal of rhetoric, President Barack Obama's top allies insisted Monday that Americans surely are better off than four years ago despite a slow economic recovery and joblessness of 8.3 percent. Republicans countered that the president has failed on the fundamental question of this election.