What Went Down On Day Three Of The Democratic Convention

Biden said Obama has been “one of our finest presidents.” According to an aggregation of rankings by scholars and experts, Obama ranks 16th of 39 presidents ranked. Those rankings are one to three years old; if scholars’ views of Obama have improved since then, like the public’s have, he might rank higher by the time his term is done.

General mood for this Biden speech inside the hall: The crowd is attentive, but buzzy. If last night was a couple glasses of red wine vibe, everyone tonight had too much coffee.

Biden video touted his “moonshot” to fight cancer. No one doubts the value of curing cancer or the sincerity of Biden’s desire to cure the disease that killed his son Beau. But prior big, central pushes to cure cancer — such as President Nixon’s “war” on cancer — haven’t panned out, and critics say the approach doesn’t make much sense for something as complex as cancer for which billions of dollars already are being spent on research.