There was a time when people thought that James Carville (Clinton '92 Lead Strategist) and George Stephanopoulous (Clinton '92 Communications Director) needed more of the spotlight. Through their key spots in the Clinton '92 campaign, these two pushed a campaign style that was markedly different from James Baker's and accommodated the new media omnipresence by responding and spinning every bit of news to every journalist who would listen. The problem is that, while husband-wife documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus had access to Carville, Stephanopoulous, and sometimes Clinton, their access to actually-important conversations seems to be lacking.
Pennebaker and Hegedus capture the events of the '92 campaign (the Gennifer Flowers scandal, Ross Perot's campaign, the Carville-Matalin relationship), but they add little new original information to what's already known. It's understandable to want to create a fly-on-the-wall document of an important election, but when the media began relatively-nonstop coverage, what differentiates this documentary from a collection of CNN clips? The only potential differences are access and editing, but their clearance is not high enough to capture any truly unique moments and the scenes that they do have aren't edited in any particularly revelatory way.