Do bald politicians tend to do badly?

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XPSlWRPy22dVLNWyjZOAO9kFx7_fMwLr2dfDRCwl1VMOw7w8OY67LUYvMPkgNQfmDXQvaOx8f_AUs0eg5zoPXpXIPUd5jyItWNtYkQEZzMPI0C2Qqjv82s96DtdfPkxW0vSyEYHfhx0O/s1600-h/bald-head.jpeg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 61px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XPSlWRPy22dVLNWyjZOAO9kFx7_fMwLr2dfDRCwl1VMOw7w8OY67LUYvMPkgNQfmDXQvaOx8f_AUs0eg5zoPXpXIPUd5jyItWNtYkQEZzMPI0C2Qqjv82s96DtdfPkxW0vSyEYHfhx0O/s320/bald-head.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353758281914989362" border="0" //abr /a href="http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2009/07/01/do-bald-guys-always-lose/" Political Betting argues /a that bald candidates face a disadvantage in elections. It does seem that, in modern British politics, when a major party has been led by a bald leader it has lost! The only time this hasn't happened is in 1945, 1950 and 1951 when both main parties were led by bald leaders (Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill). Perhaps the electorate are somewhat biased against the folically-challenged!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38622711-1768883647409953984?l=vinospoliticalblog.blogspot.com'//div

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