Originally Posted by Robbie

I have never heard that presidential candidates are given top secret anything.

If he wins the election and becomes the next President...then yes they pull back the curtain while the transition is in place. But he's not privvy to any top secret info as a candidate.

The rest of what you said seems true enough. But why the U.S. taxpayer has to pay for him to have security while campaigning (for Romney OR the president) is beyond me. They should be paying for those Secret Service guys & their travel and expenses out of those hundreds of millions of dollars in their campaign funds.