Photo by Kyle Gustafson.

“We were outraised, outspent and outnumbered,” roared Vincent Gray in front of a crowd of hundreds of supporters supporting his victory over Mayor Adrian Fenty at a downtown hotel early this morning. “But not outworked.”

Like the man or not, all of that is true. He jumped into the mayoral contest late, with no money and no organization, to challenge Fenty’s well-oiled and extremely deep-pocketed Green Machine. And despite the incumbent’s record — one which would make any big city mayor envious — Gray was quick to capitalize on Fenty’s most glaring shortcomings, both in policy and personality, and build a campaign around them. In a way, it wasn’t so much that Gray won the race, more that Fenty lost it. Badly. (The Post does a bang-up job of tracing the arc of Fenty’s failed campaign.)

So today, many residents of the District of Columbia woke up not only to find that Mayor Fenty didn’t win re-election, but also to fret that many of the gains he brought to the city could well be reversed under Gray. Hell, that’s exactly what the Fenty campaign warned would happen, when it darkly intoned of the District returning to the 1990s in its campaign advertisement.

So will they?