In an
article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, it sounds like Dean's getting cagey about what his email meant, that "Anything less will put us out of this race."
By Thursday afternoon, Dean himself equivocated on whether that meant he'd quit the campaign if he loses Wisconsin. And Roy Neel, Dean's new campaign CEO, insisted in a telephone news conference with reporters that the fund appeal did not really mean Dean would quit if he lost here.
The article says he dodged the question and that he'd repeat the dodge 500 times if they wanted! "All I can say is I stand by the e-mail, and I intend to win Wisconsin," Dean said. At a Milwaukee news conference, Dean said: "I'm kind of avoiding answering the question."
Roy Neel said, "I don't think that e-mail says if he doesn't win he'll be out of the race," Neel said. "I don't read it the same way you are interpreting it."
That's definitely the way I took it, that Wisconsin would be the end of the road (or beginning).