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Democrats tried to massage their message a day before their convention after struggling to come up with a definitive answer on whether voters would feel that they were better off since President Barack Obama took office.
Brad Woodhouse, communications director for the Democratic National Committee, said on CNN's "Early Start" on Monday that Americans were "absolutely" better off than four years ago, portraying the president as a pilot who saved a crashing plane.
"The truth is that the American people know, we were literally a plane, the trajectory was towards the ground. He got the stick and pulled us up out of that decline," Woodhouse said.
Woodhouse's answer was far more definitive than those of some top Obama advisers on Sunday talk shows who stumbled over the question of how Americans feel four years after Obama's election.