Democratic Convention Positions Party Perfectly

Day three of the Democrats' convention in Charlotte set up the party as well as could have been expected.

*  With the GOP in Tampa forgetting about Afghanistan and the interests of military families, numerous Democratic speakers, including the Vice-President and President touted and showcased veterans, their families and their needs.

* The Democrats drove home a positive, populist economic message - - Obama called it "citizenship," stressing our collective democratic interests - - that directly countered the GOP embrace of Paul Ryan's libertarian 'you're-on-your-own' budget and Mitt Romney's privileged 'I've-already-got-mine' Wall Street biases.

*And the Democrats ended their convention without a Clint Eastwoodesque, talk-to-the-chair FUBAR that reflected poorly on the GOP convention's managers - - and also on Romney, since post-convention stories said it was Romney who invited Eastwood to do the schtick, and in Romney's Bain/CEO-controlling world, no one dare questions what the boss says he wants.

An uneasy peek into a Romney-run White House, I'd say.

What happens in two months?

Dunno.

Polls and the electoral college map show things to be very close, but President Obama and his party throughout the convention were better organized and strategically superior. Maybe that counts for something in a close race with less than nine weeks left.