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For Obama Faithful, Fears Cloud Hopes

Posted Feb 25, 08 10:15 AM CST in Politics 

(Newser) – "Stop worrying," Barack Obama tells supporters. “I've got the best protection in the world.” But they're worrying anyway: Even as supporters have watched their candidate rocket from longshot to frontrunner, their anxieties about a possible assassination attempt have grown, the New York Times reports. “Some candidates are bigger targets than others," ex-contender Gary Hart notes. "Any transition candidate or change candidate has a higher profile.”

"Barack scares us," says one expert. "He represents so much hope and change. That is exactly what was taken away from us in the 1960s.” Secret Service agents have guarded Obama since May 2007, earlier than any other presidential candidate ever, and his coverage rivals that of a sitting president. As Obama himself points out, "Neither Kennedy nor Martin Luther King had Secret Service protection.”

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