On Election Day there is a well-oiled machine that knows how to turn those votes out from specific neighborhoods and in specific ways.

You are going to have candidates going into their hotel suites to watch the returns, knowing that anything could happen.

You are going to see everything you can imagine in campaigning.

All of this favors the top, best known candidates.

You have three election days for people scattered over 50 states.

I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray. The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knockout punch.