Politics is a hairy business | Opinion

No doubt sexism and ageism play an unfortunate role in politics. But what about lookism and baldism?

The last time we elected a bald man as president of the United States was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. With more than 50% of American men bald or balding, how can this be? What about Gerald Ford, you say? Sorry, he wasn’t elected.

What happened in the 1950s to cause this phenomenon? Hint: Only 9% of American households had a television set in 1950; by 1960, that number jumped to 90%.