The death penalty is an example of Democratic delegates' being distant from public attitudes.
Controlling Mr. Sununu, the short, cackling id of the Romney campaign, is no easy task, especially this week, when he is being mobbed, movie-star-style, by high-fiving delegates and distant Romney relatives who want to pose for pictures with him.
New York is the rare state where Kasich, a distant third in the delegate count, offers Trump his stiffest competition.
We have developed a network-based 'speed dating' approach that allows us to initiate such distant interactions by pairing every delegate with another delegate who might be of interest to them, but whom they might never have encountered otherwise.
The prince was invited to address the delegates by his distant relative Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who helped organise the event.
Bennett was turfed out of office by coming a distant third in a ballot of 3,500 delegates in Salt Lake City.
As the eve of the convention dawned, Humphrey appeared to hold a lead over McCarthy among the delegates with McGovern in a distant third, but with many delegates still uncommitted, the three men battled it out.
Mr. Paul was even less of a factor in Louisiana, and he appears headed to a distant fourth place in the state, with no delegates.
The former congressman, below, is running a distant third in the race to secure 1,144 delegates to clinch the nomination, well behind Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and his fellow conservative Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator.
He's currently in a distant third place behind Trump and Cruz for delegates and has only managed to win two of the 24 primary states that have voted so far.
Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, a distant second to Mr. Kerry of Massachusetts in the delegate race, dropped the mostly nice-guy approach he'd used three days earlier in the Los Angeles debate.
