Where the candidates stand on closing the "innovation gap"

The United States, for decades, was the leader of the technological revolution. Not so much anymore. Starting in 2002, we imported more high-technology products than we exported and that difference has been growing ever since. What programs do the two Presidential candidates have in mind for closing or even eliminating that gap?

Republican John McCain offers the same answer for this as he does for practically everything: cut corporate taxes and end "burdensome regulations." Democrat Barack Obama, on the other hand, sees a more active role for the federal government to finance science, math and engineering education and in research that results in industrial spinoffs.

Obama is a firm believer in evolution and claims the teaching of intelligent design and other creationist theories clouds a student's understanding of science. McCain says he believes in evolution, but that students should be taught all points of view.