Science policy is more important now than ever before, I'd argue, specifically because of recent and continuing encroachments on western scientific advancement by both anti-intellectual bible-thumpers and industrial global-warming deniers. GWB and his ilk have let them rot away at the US's status as a leading scientific producer in order to win points with the base. It's critical that we get a president who supports teaching actual science (and only actual science) in the classroom, and keeping the concerns of frightened fundamentalists and psychotic corporations out of the laboratory.

As a side note, I imagine that a HuckCain ticket might be the most bullshit-free one in living memory. I still wouldn't vote for it. (Which is kind of a shame.)