Dorcey Applyrs greets supporters at the Common Roots Brewing Company after winning a four-way Democratic Party primary for mayor of Albany on Tuesday in Albany.

In the end, it wasn’t even close. Dorcey Applyrs smoked Dan Cerutti. She stomped him. She chewed him up and… well, you get the picture, which is perhaps best painted by numbers from the city’s Democratic Party primary.

According to the preliminary tally, Applyrs, the city’s auditor and soon to be its first Black mayor, received 52% of the vote while Cerutti, a tech executive, garnered 28%. Council President Corey Ellis and Carolyn McLaughlin, a county legislator, were pretty much nonfactors, getting just 10 and 7%, respectively.

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That wasn’t the result many of us were expecting. We looked into our crystal balls and figured Cerutti had enough support to make the race close, at least. Heck, just five weeks ago, I wrote that he might be the frontrunner. Oops.

Well, a lot can change in five weeks, and in this race, much did. Applyrs, 43, responded to Cerutti’s surge by blasting him with ads that painted him and his well-heeled supporters as closeted Republicans. In his concession speech Tuesday night, Cerutti said

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