At 8:08 pm, the backroom of the Spitfire was buzzing with several dozen people—younger people, older people, people dressed in work casual clothes and mingling and drinking and hugging. Someone started playing "Walk the Line" on the overhead speakers and everyone in the room clapped along for a few measures. It was weird.

At 8:10 pm, Jesse Israel and Sally Bagshaw stood under a giant screen that was, at this point in time, showing nothing but a Windows screen saver.

At 8:11 pm, they logged on to the King County Elections page and everyone paused their conversations to look up at the screen.
They hit refresh. All races reported 0%.
At 8:12 pm, they hit refresh again.
At 8:13 pm, they hit refresh once more.
And at 8:14 pm, they hit refresh yet again, while Israel continued to smile and hug every person that came and said hello.

Then, at exactly 8:15 pm, the results were refreshed one last time and a man in the room yelled "YEAH!" No one noticed at first, and then it sunk in a moment after everyone had a chance to digest the numbers.

Bagshaw won with 68%.
Israel lost with 42%.

Still, everyone in the room cheered and applauded. And we overheard Israel say that she feels fine and the she feels good about her campaign.

A few minutes after the results came in, Israel got up in the front of the room for what was essentially her concession speech.

"I got into this race because I thought it was time for a change," she said. "It was time for government that did more and talked less." Everyone cheered. "I ran... ran like hell. And I had fun every single step of the way." Israel promised that, despite the numbers, she's not done. "I am by no means gone. We have a lot of work to do. We are not done. I repeat, we are not done."

After another loud and supportive round of raucous applause, Israel introduced Sally Bagshaw, who was all smiles. Of course. She kicked Bloom's ass. She thanked her husband, she thanked the crowd, and she thanked her 95 year old aunt who drove up from Portland to be there tonight. And then she asked "Where are we with 1033? Is that thing getting shut down?" "Yes!" someone yelled in the crowd. "Good!" she exclaimed.

And then she said "Not once did we say a negative thing about our opponents," and she promised to bring that attitude into her new position as councilmember. "We're gonna stop the bickering. It's time for us to come together."