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Hanna Rosin writes about Washington insiders who backed Dean who may now find themselves shut out of Washington: "Insiders Who Are On the Outs"

Sometimes the most interesting parts are at the end.

John Kerry's people, meanwhile, high on victory, are feeling magnanimous. But they don't forget. Many of them hung on even while their candidate was in single digits in the polls, and such loyalty deserves reward, they say. When former Democratic National Committee chairman Steve Grossman publicly said he was leaving the Dean campaign to join Kerry's a day before the Wisconsin primary, they accepted him. His father works for the Kerry campaign, and Grossman helped Kerry in his 1996 Senate race. But that he'd abandoned Dean so extravagantly didn't sit well. "There are codes of professional conduct," says one Kerry aide, who spoke on condition that he not be identified. "And sticking with your guy until the end is one of them.