I think it’s based on poll numbers or somesuch, otherwise an Alvin Greene could declare and they’d have to protect him. Of course, President Bush was gracious enough to provide Mr. Obama with protection waaaaaay before he had clinched the nomination, but do you expect this crew to follow suit and give her that kind of ‘cred’ as they would put it?
In the event she were granted SS protection; all those threats against her on the internet would have to come to a screeching halt; unless I am mistaken.