James Carville 

His winning streak began in 1986, when he managed the gubernatorial victory of Robert Casey in Pennsylvania. In 1987, Carville helped guide Wallace Wilkinson to the governor’s seat in Kentucky. Carville continued his winning streak with a win in New Jersey with Frank Lautenberg elected to the US Senate. He next managed the successful 1990 gubernatorial campaign of Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller, including a tough primary win over Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, and in 1991, Carville – who had already become prominent in many political circles – drew national attention when he led Senator Harris Wofford from 40 points behind in the polls to an upset landslide victory over former Pennsylvania Governor and U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. But his most prominent victory was in 1992 when he helped William Jefferson Clinton win the Presidency. 

In recent years, Carville has not been a paid political consultant for many domestic politicians or candidates, instead focusing on campaigns in more than 23 countries around the globe stretching from the continents of South America to Europe to Africa and most recently Asia. 

James Carville is also a best-selling author, actor, producer, talk-show host, speaker and restaurateur. His titles include We're Still Right, They're Still Wrong: The Democrats' Case for 2016, Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home; It’s The Middle Class Stupid!; All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (with wife Mary Matalin); We’re Right, They’re Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives; And the Horse He Rode In On: The People vs. Kenneth Starr; Buck Up, Suck Up...and Come Back When You Foul Up; Had Enough? A Handbook for Fighting Back; Stickin’: The Case for Loyalty; his children’s book, Lu and the Swamp Ghost; and 2006’s Take it Back, 40 More Years: How the Democrats will Rule the Next Generation. 

Along with pollster Stanley Greenberg, Carville founded Democracy Corps, an independent, non-profit polling organization dedicated to making government more responsive to the American people. He now co-hosts the weekly Politicon podcast Politics War Room with journalist Al Hunt.

Carville also serves as a fellow at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and lives in New Orleans with his wife Mary Matalin.

Mary Matalin 

Mary Matalin’s intellectual integrity, practical insights and engaging commentary have earned her a widely acclaimed reputation as one of the country’s foremost and seasoned voices across a diverse spectrum of policy making, political and multi-media platforms. 

Her career spans 40-plus years in senior positions as Advisor, Counselor, Chief of Staff, and campaign manager serving multiple history making Presidents and Vice Presidents, as well as federal, state and local leaders of both parties, where she was engaged in transformational policy and reform initiatives in energy, economics and security issues. 

Her political and policy making activities were interspersed with multiple media experiences, including hosting her own award-winning television and radio shows, penning several national best sellers, publishing dozens of renowned authors as Editor-in-Chief of Threshold Editions, the line she founded at Simon & Schuster. 

She has also appeared in multiple critically acclaimed documentaries, television shows and movies, including co-starring on HBO’s avant-garde K Street, produced by George Clooney and directed by Steven Soderberg. 

Matalin, a Chicago native, is married to her political and geographical beloved oddball opposite, Ragin' Cajun James Carville, is mother to two remarkably accomplished apolitical daughters and is enjoying time with her first grandchild. 

Matalin and Carville reside in New Orleans and Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where she is active in Catholic charities, community affairs, sits on multiple boards and avidly supports the SEC, NFL, NBA, breeds various cats, dogs, goats, fowl and beehives.