No, it means people want to know if presidential candidates suffer from anti-science superstition to the detriment of medical research funding, which is often at the discretion of the executive.
Again, I have yet to see that as a political issue. Not one of the candidates has made it an issue. People don’t really care if the candidate is a creationist or evolutionist. They care where he stands on the abortion issue, homosexual marriage, gun control, UN, taxes, public education, health care.
The only people who I’ve EVER seen make it a political issue is the evolutionists on FR. Nobody else I know even cares about it at election time, including all the Christians I know. The only reason it would become an issue is if the evolutionists make it one by making belief in the ToE a litmus test for a candidate. Then people will push back.