"I'm like everybody else," Murray told Fizz last night after we pressed him about what, oddly, turned out to be the hottest story late in the campaign, the fact that Comcast backed his election with more than $10,000, and, as the Washington Post speculated, that he would do their bidding and pull the plug on any competition: "I hate my Comcast service."

And he added for good measure: "We're going to wire this city."

And another thing: Challenger Murray, who was beating incumbent Mayor Mike McGinn by a huge 56.1 to 43.1, 13-point margin last night, said: "We're going to stop coal trains."

This Murray promise was a reference to a similar accusation Murray had to contend with during the campaign as the McGinn camp tried to paint him as a conservative who was in hock to big coal because he'd gotten a donation from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, which would ferry coal from Wyoming and Montana to new coal terminals in Washington under a proposed coal port agreement. 

The kooky contention that Murray, the longtime Democratic state senator with a 95 percent lifetime voting record from labor who passed gay marriage (and a gay rights bill seven years ago similar to the one that the U.S. House was scoffing at just yesterday), is a conservative, was just one of the narratives that McGinn pushed during the campaign.  

"I'm like everybody else. I hate my Comcast service."—Ed Murray

The other (which, given last night's blowout numbers, ranks McGinn up there with Mitt Romney when it comes to believing your own press releases) was that McGinn had a populist mandate and a marginalized majority that was ready to stun the establishment with its mythic field game.

"I think our ground game was better than his," Murray said last night. "It was the untold story of this campaign."

Earlier in the night, before the mandate-like numbers (for Murray) came in, Murray's consultant Christian Sinderman told Fizz the same thing, contesting the idea that McGinn's field would carry the day. (In the runup to the election the McGinn camp was buzzing about a McGinn surge that would defy the "establishment" —which evidently included everyone from Murray supporters such as Planned Parenthood staffers to the Service Employees International Union 775 that was leading the minimum wage campaign in SeaTac—and would be within striking distance on election night and dominate the late votes to overtake Murray.) 

"It [McGinn's field game] worked against Joe Mallahan," Sinderman said, referring to the former T-Mobile exec whom McGinn beat in 2009. "But Murray had a huge field effort."

It's likely, given his alliance with SEIU (not to mention the minimum wage win in nearby SeaTac and Socialist candidate Kshama Sawant's notable campaign for raising the minimum wage in Seattle), that Murray, who pledged to raise the minimum wage incrementally to $15 in Seattle, will run with that issue and further disrupt the McGinn narrative.

But last night Murray told Fizz his to-do list was focused on neighborhoods and the industrial corridor.

"In the '90s, back when I was on council staff [Murray worked for former city council member Martha Choe], we went through a pretty extensive planning process. There were 38 neighborhoods. We identified urban villages. And we've allowed them to fall apart. We need density. But we're not going to get density unless we go back and create a pact with neighborhoods about where that density's going to happen. Within the first 100 days I plan to call a neighborhood summit to begin that process."

He continued announcing planned summits: "Within the first 100 days I plan to call a summit on our industrial and our maritime areas about how we can revitalize them and create the South Lake Union version of our industrial side because if those jobs go away the middle class is gone from Seattle."

A win for districts could pit several sitting council members against each other in two years.

Murray was getting ahead of himself. Despite the fact that McGinn's consultant John Wyble originally told Fizz that McGinn was going to concede, the mayor stopped short of doing so last night.

For his part, Murray was declaring victory. Standing off to the side of the packed dance floor at his victory party at Neumos on Capitol Hill last night, he told Fizz: "I'm trying to honor tradition. And let him call.  But yeah. It was clear. If we had been five or six points I wouldn't have, but thirteen points..."

For all the other results, including a win for districts which could pit City Council members Sally Clark and Bruce Harrell, Nick Licata and Mike O'Brien, and Sally Bagshaw and Tim Burgess (not to mention Richard Conlin and Kshama Sawant) against each other in two years, check out our list here.

Erica will be on KOUW's the Record with Ross Reynolds at Noon today to talk about last night's results.