The Seattle Times: Politics: Dean draws crowd, hits GOP:

"LACEY, Thurston County - Washington Democrats greeted Democratic National Committee
Chairman Howard Dean on Monday night as if it were early 2004, when his presidential campaign was igniting liberals in the party.

A record crowd of more than 1,200 Democrats packed the party's annual crab-feed fundraiser...

Dean indulged himself in a little nostalgia. If only we started out in Washington state and not Iowa,' he said about the race for the nomination he lost to U.S. Sen. John Kerry."