Secret Service

The annual report of the Secret Service contains some remarkable numbers. During the 2008 race, the Service screened 2.84 million people at campaign events using Uniformed Division officers, Transportation Security Administration security officers and more than 3,500

metal detectors. Here are the number of days it protected each candidate:

Obama 517

Clinton 195

McCain 157

Biden 39

Palin 33

The introductory message says that it is the first annual report of the Secret Service. But according to an article in The New York Times on December 3, 1893, the Service issued an annual report that year.