A new CNN documentary, Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony. Carville rose to fame for helping Bill Clinton win the 1992 presidential election and coining the immortal phrase “It’s the economy, stupid.” He is still popular partly due to his profane partisanship and his comically fraught partnership with his Republican wife, Mary Matalin, who was working for George H. W. Bush’s campaign when they met. The documentary focuses on Carville’s most recent cause: tirelessly lobbying to get Biden off the ticket. He was one of the first to warn that Biden was too old and unpopular to win, and he said it with brio, rage, and polling data. Nancy Pelosi finally sealed the deal, but it was Carville who first sounded the alarm. —Alessandra Stanley