These are all words in the article, let's look at the actual track record, after all in a politician past performance guarantees future performance Under Obama

These are all words in the article, let's look at the actual track record, after all in a politician past performance guarantees future performance Under Obama the NSF and NIH budgets have been flat. As far as the actual practice of science goes, there is no difference between the candidates. We didn't know that five years ago, when it was guaranteed that there was going to be a Democratic president and Congress. Most every university started building projects to expand their aging facilities, considering that Democratic administrations had always been favorable to the sciences and that under Bush II federal funding for the sciences had been flat. The increase in funding didn't happen, and that is part of the reason that US universities are in trouble.