It's What Men Think

(Wednesday, December 15, 2004) - "Men Deserve Better" according to 65% of the respondents who answered that question as part the 2004 Hair Saloon® Barber Poll™, a weekly poll conducted by Hair Saloon® For Men - a men's haircutting franchise - on its web site (www.hairsaloon.com). Other findings include:


Health, Sports & Leisure
• About fitness, for their age, most men (63%) claimed to be "very physically fit"; 25% said they were "relatively fit"; while 12.5% admitted to being "fat, slow and lazy."

• Polled on the recent birthday anniversary of the Earl of Sandwich, men by far prefer "Cheeseburgers" (40%) over "The Classic Club" (30%), "The Reuben" (20%) and "Ham & Cheese" (10%). So leave Santa a cheeseburger.

• "Best card game": blackjack (56%), followed by poker (28%) and bridge (16%).

• Last summer, respondents said: the "best team sport" is football (31%), then baseball (29%), basketball (22%), soccer (10%) and hockey (8%).

• Months before the issue exploded in November, 26% of respondents cited "steroid-use in Major League Baseball" as the "top sports-issue in need of government intervention," followed by "boxing" (20%) and "National Hockey League violence" (6%). A 32% majority said the government should "stay out of sports" altogether; and 16% said the government should be involved in "any/all issues."

• In a separate question, CBS News, the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball Team and the U.S. Ryder Cup Team finished in a dead heat (33% each) as "the worst team" in America.

• Although Rodney Dangerfield finished a distant second (17%) to George Carlin (78%) as "best stand-up comedian," his "Caddy Shack" movie (36.37%) edged "Bull Durham" (36.36%) as "best sports-comedy movie."


Politics & Media
• Last spring, 44% of men polled picked Bush; 42% picked Kerry; and 14% were "undecided".

• As the election approached, 70% of respondents said the American news media is "too liberal"; 15% said it is "too conservative"; and 15% said journalism is "fair and balanced."

• Later in November, 50% of respondents said CNN offers the "best cable-TV news"; 33.4% preferred Fox; and CNBC/MS-NBC got a combined 16.6% of the votes.

• Respondents also strongly preferred "The Passion" (83%) over "Fahrenheit 9/11" (17%) in a direct comparison.

• The second highest-majority response of the year showed 80% of respondents believe "marriage is exclusively for men and women."

History
• George Washington (50%) won handily as "America's Best General" over MacArthur (38%) and Grant (12%); with Eisenhower and Schwarzkopf each getting no votes (0%).

• A late-November poll question shows the Lee Harvey Oswald debate remains muddy, as 38% of men polled tabbed him as a "co-conspirator"; 31% said he was a "patsy"; and 31% said he was "a lone gunman" in the Dallas assassination of JFK.


Web site visitors are invited to "vote weekly in our Hair Saloon® Barber Poll™ and track your perspectives versus those of other men." To participate, men can go to the franchise-company web site (www.hairsaloon.com); click on the "News & Views" icon on the home page; then click on the Hair Saloon® Barber Poll™ icon. Visitors can also look up archived questions/answers for the past year.

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