MSNBC reports today it costs the US Secret Service $45,000 per day to protect each presidential candidate. That’s part of a larger near-$90 million budget for the 2008 campaign.
The timing of this year’s conventions poses a unique challenge for the Secret Service as well. Coming off protection details in China where U.S. dignitaries traveled for the Olympics, the agents and officers go straight to Denver for the Democratic National Convention and then have just three days before the Republican counterpart kicks off. In 2004, there were 32 days between the two conventions; and there were 11 days between the 2000 conventions.
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