Brief Dean Q-and-A

Dean made a quick exit after the meeting adjourned, but he did answer a few reporter questions as he walked through the Omni lobby to his waiting town car:

Reporter: Do you think the election results are a total vindication [of the DNC's 50-state strategy / broad approach to spending campaign funds]?

Dean: The best thing to do instead of speaking about things like vindication is just say, 'Look, we won, everybody had a huge contribution to make, including some of participants in all the feuding that was going on.' We ought to take comfort in the fact that we all worked hard, we all get some credit for it and we need now to move ahead.

Is there anything to fix in the 50-state strategy? Everything needs fine-tuning, right?

Well I’m sure there is. But that we won’t be sharing that with you [laughs].

Governor, do you ever think you’ll be fully embraced by the DC Beltway elite, or the Democratic elite, for lack of a better term?

You know, that’s not high on my agenda. High on my agenda is electing a Democratic president and making sure the gains we had in this past election cycle are gains that we maintain and expand on. I just… [laughs] ... those kinds of questions just don’t compute with me. I don’t think like that.