Reply #13: I saw Obama, Clinton, and Edwards in NH... [View All]

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...and in every case I was surprised at how lax security seemed (especially for Edwards, who didn't seem to have any security at all, as far as I could tell).

Both Clinton and Obama had a few visible, straight-from-central-casting Secret Service guys, and no doubt a few plain-clothes security people among the crowd, but there were no metal detectors, and it certainly seemed to me that a would-be assassin would have had a good chance to pull off an attack. I'm guessing that the main form of security comes from people watching the crowd carefully and scanning for signs of suspicious behavior -- however effective that method of security might be.