Any further delays – as happened during the 2011 polls, when elections were twice pushed back, including once less than a week to the date – could tip the nation into constitutional crisis as it would leave the electoral body scrambling to hold credible polls before a constitutional deadline of 28 April, analysts warned.
As part of this scrambled electoral map, states that each campaign expected to be fiercely competitive, like New Jersey and Illinois, have not emerged as major battlegrounds -- and have been virtually neglected by the candidates.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is where the Tea Party slew one of its first giants, toppling a three-term Republican senator in a 2010 electoral coup that scrambled party politics and heralded a litany of fierce contests between establishment Republicans and conservative upstarts.
Mr. Trump's campaign believes his strength among blue-collar white voters offers him an opportunity to capture the state, which could scramble the electoral map.
But Mr. Bush was scrambling for electoral victory and lagging in the popular vote, with everything hinged on a state once assumed to be a sure thing.
On the day when the White House should have been exulting in the number of Iraqis who took part in the electoral process, officials were scrambling to justify our president's authorization of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants.
The presence of Michael R. Bloomberg, a Republican with views that could be appealing to some Democrats, has scrambled the electoral calculus in a way that many Democrats say could give either Mr. Hevesi or Mr. Green a shot on a third-party line, should either lose the Democratic Party's nomination.
Back home, Mr. Chávez's supporters prayed for his recovery as opponents tried to adjust to what could be a vastly changed political landscape two months after an electoral defeat left them demoralized and scrambling to keep from losing more ground.
As Britain's progressive parties scramble to recover from an electoral trouncing, the victorious Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron finds himself facing a very different challenge.
He will be in Hawaii for the next couple of weeks; that comment came in response to a question about whether, while he was gone, members of the Electoral College, which meets on Monday, should do something dramatic, and whether the whole electoral-college system needed scrambling.
