Hair and the presidential election

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It seems to be elected U.S. president, you cannot be balding (as 50% of middle-aged men are) and not only that, you cannot even be receding. On that score, I doubt Tony Blair could ever have been elected president. You have to have a completely full head of hair, and you score extra points if you wear it in some ridiculously bouffant way like Kerry or Edwardes. This hair question doesn't seem to be an issue in other democratic countries. Howard in Australia, Chirac, Berlusconi - all pretty much bald as coots and no less electable for it.

Whence this hair obsession in America?

― slightly balding man, Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

this is like Colette's dream thread or something

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

AL Sharpton has the best hairdo going and he hasn't a chance in hell.

― Chris V (Chris V), Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

wasnt churchill the last bald prime minister?

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sharpton2004.org/images/sharpton1_r1_c1.jpg

― Chris V (Chris V), Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Blair wasn't balding when he was elected though, its the pressures of office that's making him lose his hair. You cannot be bald and electable in this day and age, ask Kinnock, Hague, Howard, IDS and friends.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1131820,00.html

in 20 years, i'll be interested to see if guys of my peer group running for office will have the short spiky hair that is so common, or if they'll settle down into old man hair...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinnock came within a hair's breadth (so to speak).

You also have to be tall, white and male. The cosmetic emphasis in the U.S. is greater because the president is more of a national symbol than in Westminster-style democracies. Blair is not the symbolic incarnation of the nation, the Queen is.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bartleby.com/124/eisenhower.gif
98% Bald

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/95auggifs/lbj1.gif
Receding

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/peopleevents/images/nixon.jpg
Definitely Receding

http://www.midatlantic.net/8x10/gerald-ford.jpg
Plenty of Skull Showing

http://www.albany.edu/pr/albanymagspring99/gore.jpg
Won the Popular Vote

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 29 January 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

sexy
http://www.registers1.com/mccain/images/mccain.jpg

― gershy, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

He looks like Frank Drebbin :|

― Trayce, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thisisthelast.com/wp-content/jimwill.jpg

Jim and William Reid for US Prez!

― Z S, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

election 08: the smell of fear

― gershy, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

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