Over the course of an election season, presidential candidates must get their hair cut at least, what, a handful of times.

Working backward:

• American popular opinion is driven by the media.
• The media is dominated by image.
• A candidate’s appearance is their primary image.
• A candidate’s appearance is, briefly, under the complete control of the person who cuts their hair.

Somewhere in America are a handful of men and women, holding scissors and shears, that could single-handedly reshape the American political landscape in under two seconds without the use of a weapon.