At Dinner, It’s Barack, Not Brad, for the Ladies: Pro Shop Blog

Forty percent of women would choose Barack Obama as their ideal dinner companion. The president-elect beats out Brad Pitt, the dream dinner date of only 20% of women. But if Michelle Obama plans to tag along in that dress she wore election night, almost two thirds of women say she can just stay home.

Those controversial findings are part of the end-of-year round-up of survey results amassed by www.BettyConfidential.com, a start-up Web portal that regularly takes the temperature of its female readership with online surveys. More predictably, 91% of respondents told the site that they will be cutting back on their holiday shopping this year—although they will be letting themselves indulge in the comforts of beauty products (18%), mani/pedicures (18%), and chocolate (16%).