In the latest vote totals, Mike McGinn has surpassed Joe Mallahan as the leading contender to succeed Greg Nickels—who conceded this morning—as mayor of Seattle. The latest numbers show McGinn with 27.6 percent to Mallahan's 27.01 percent—780 votes ahead. In the last vote count, Mallahan was 540 votes ahead of McGinn. Turnout in Seattle so far is a bit over 36 percent.

Meanwhile, Dow Constantine narrowed Susan Hutchison's lead dramatically—from 15 points on election day, to 9.6 points yesterday, to 6.6 points today. Constantine's spokesman Sandeep Kaushik said, "the momentum we've seen in the last few days is incredible."

Hutchison's campaign manager, Jordan McCarren, repeated what he told Josh yesterday: That "special interests were out in force in the final days" of the election. The main "special interest" he's referring to is the Service Employees International Union, which did a last-minute $41,000 expenditure on Constantine's behalf.

He also noted that Hutchison (unlike Constantine) did no television ads, which he said would almost certainly change in the general election.