Analysts note that the opportunity to derail the carefully orchestrated election could be as much of a lure for reformists to abandon their intended boycott as is the prospect of a moderate winning or at least making it into the runoff.
Mr. Karzai's election became a foregone conclusion by Wednesday when all the strong contenders rallied behind him in what was seen as an orchestrated election sealed behind closed doors.
While debates ensue over whether the visit by Ariel Sharon, the Israeli opposition leader, to a sacred Islamic site provoked the violence and whether the Palestinian reaction was spontaneous or orchestrated, Election Day realities have forced the Senate candidates to take sides.
A coarse but brilliant man who often sported a diamond in the shirt draped over his huge stomach, he orchestrated elections, controlled the mayor and made sure that the Tammany faithful were well rewarded for the often questionable services they provided.
That has, in truth, been the case here ever since President Vladimir V. Putin came to power and proceeded to orchestrate elections in which the Kremlin's favored candidates remained far removed from the people who nominally elect them.
After his speech, some people in the audience tried to ask Mr. Jackson if he thought Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida had orchestrated the election confusion.
At Stephen's death, however, the powerful Tusculani family orchestrated the election of John Mincius, bishop of Velletri, as Benedict X, though only two cardinals participated in the voting; the other cardinals, including Peter Damian, had left Rome for Florence.
The apotheosis of Rove really began in 1988, when he orchestrated the election of Texas's chief justice, Tom Phillips, a young judge in Houston who was both very smart and very well connected.
In the wake of a relatively free and fair election, orchestrated by the UN, last May, the question remains: What is to be done with the Khmer Rouge?
"While Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in Wisconsin have put people back to work and turned deficits into surpluses, big labor and Democrats orchestrated a recall election for selfish political retribution," Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee who led Republicans' efforts in Wisconsin in last year's election, said in a statement issued early Wednesday.
Mr Kenyatta was accused, with others, of orchestrating post-election violence in 2007 which left at least 1,300 people dead and perhaps half a million homeless.
