Only four men alive have captained successful presidential campaigns: Ed Rollins (Ronald Reagan, 1984), James Carville (both Bill Clinton campaigns), Karl Rove (George W. Bush‘s double) and the wily David Axelrod, now ensconced at the University of Chicago.

(If you are trying to think who ran Bush 41’s 1988 campaign, it was the late, much-missed Lee Atwater. Reagan’s 1980 campaign was piloted by William Casey, far more famous for his tenure at the CIA than for masterminding the success of the campaign of the man who defeated the Soviet Union.)