With only 96,000 votes left to count in King County, Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson has hit 50.15 percent of the vote. Mayor Bruce Harrell is now at 41.70 percent. Almost ten points behind. As his last campaign email subject line read: “We are down.” Boy, are they.

These numbers would be difficult to pull for an incumbent, and even more so for an upstart who didn’t get the support of MLK Labor, the county’s union of unions, or establishment democrats like Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Governor Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nick Brown.

In polling just before the election, it was clear that voters were still getting to know Wilson. Only 27 percent of likely voters polled by the Northwest Progressive Institute chose Wilson on name recognition alone. But they also showed that vo

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