James Carville

Down with the BCS: “Sports fans are smart and they understand the idea of the BCS is inherently uncompetitive … college football players are incapable of determining their own sport’s champion. It’s the only sport in the world that does that. How am I supposed to promote that?” Carville, the bald man you’ve seen frequently [...]  

Democratic and Republican consultants will gather at Tulane University Monday and Tuesday for the first political summit of the Bipartisan Policy Cente r. James Carville and Mary Matalin are hosts for the Bipartisan Policy Center event. Political ...  

Yeah, got to admit, watching him on TV you do kind of expect him to flick a fly out of mid-air with his tongue....  

The NRCC has come up with a great way for activists who do not trust the NRCC to get involved in defeating Democrats. They’ve set up a website called Reverse The Vote. The site is raising money to defeat 24 Democrats who voted for Nancy Pelosi’s health care legislation, despite their congressional districts being clearly opposed to the plan. The key is, and this is why I fully support this, the NRCC isn’t controlling the money. It is not...  

Brian Faughnan wonders why James Carville isn't touting his new poll that indicates 19 percent of 2010's likely voters describe themselves as liberal, against 45 percent who describe themselves as conservative.  

But James Carville on CNN calls his wife, Mary Matalin, and Sarah Palin the best-looking GOP women.  

James Carville was right. Carville, Bill Clinton's political strategist during the 1992 presidential election race, posted a note in Clinton's campaign office that became a rallying cry: "It's the economy, stupid!"  

Politico.com "I teased him, 'You might be getting Jay Leno'd here," says James Carville. "You're doing fine and then someone comes up with this brilliant idea." George Stephanopoulos isn't a man given to impulsive decisions, he adds. "I don't know if it's the right or wrong thing for him, but I can guarantee the world that it's sufficiently been thought about." > Cuomo leaves "GMA" for "20/20" anchor post  

Ben Stein made an indirect reference to the ClimateGate e-mail scandal during a face-off with Democratic strategist James Carville on Wednesday’s Situation Room: “The truth is, we’ve now got a lot of data coming out that the scientific community who are on the side of anthropogenic global warming were cooking the data and were suppressing data to those requesting their data.” Stein and Carville appeared on the program’s regular “Strategy...  

A new survey from Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville finds voters are “pretty uncertain” that President Barack Obama’s policies will work and believe by a narrow margin that Republicans would do a better job on the economy. Carville and Greenberg do not foresee a wave election in 2010 that would return Republicans to congressional majorities, partly because the GOP itself remains damaged from public ill will toward the...  

Karl Rove, former top adviser to President George W. Bush, bluntly accused President Barack Obama of deliberately "destabilizing" the government of Afghanistan, in an interview this morning on the Fox News Channel.Rove said Obama sent Democratic party henchman James Carville to help the campaign of one of President Hamid Karzai's opponents for the August presidential election.An article by NPR last summer says Carville's strategy was to drag...  

Here is video of Larry King Live last night where a panel discussed Sarah Palin and her new book tour for "Going Rogue." James Carville said he thought her first interview with Oprah went well, and that "she served notice on the Republican Party" that she is a serious player for the 2012 Nomination. Carville said she has some real support out there, and the Republicans will "have to deal with her." S.E. Cupp, conservative columnist, said Palin...  

George Stephanopoulos has a new job, but his friend James Carville doesn't want his former Clinton campaign colleague to leave This Week, which has cachet within the Beltway, in order to host Good Morning America, which is enormously profitable, reports Politico. Said Carville: "I teased him, 'You might be getting Jay Leno'd here.' You're doing fine and then someone comes up with this brilliant idea."  

Dem Senators are peeling off of President Obama’s government takeover of health care and its liberal fantasy land that spends more than a trillion and contains hundreds of billions in new taxes. As James Carville told CNN, President Obama only has 57 votes. Reuters James Pethokoukis is reporting that Senators Liberman, Landrieu and Nelson are at NO, and Bayh maybe too. Pethokoukis is reporting the same thing Hammond said in his memo, that...  

If the withdrawal of Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava in Upstate New York will make the race tougher for Democrats to win, they don't seem too upset about it. In fact, they're reveling in the news. "I have an announcement to make. Ronald Reagan’s big tent just collapsed in Upstate New York. It no longer exists," Democratic strategist James Carville said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." Carville said the message from the NY-23 race is...