I'd vote for him, if only to increase basic research stock and funding. I'm not sure his social and foreign policies would be apt, however, given his academic veneer he takes to the written-about issue.
I'd vote for him too. I am sure his social and foreign policies would turn out fine. I don't think it is even hard to come up with a decent social and foreign policy: observe that there is a wide range of such policies among "successful countries". USA is laissez-faire, Denmark is half-socialist, Switzerland is neutral etc. As long as you are not deliberately trying to be a tool, you'll probably do okay.
