The goatee stays!
Interestingly, the largest concentration of "Shave It"s are in Southern California, so a regional rather than a global vote would have me back to being a baby-face. Clearly, the goatee is still popular in the East and across the South.
Speaking of the global vote — it was split. 1 vote in Australia voted to keep and 1 vote in Japan voted to shave.
Thanks for playing along — this was fun!
Stevil 
Let's see … you live in Southern California … maybe the large number of votes from that area are people who actually know you in real life, lol.ANYTHING but a "soul patch" is fine.
I demand a recount! Foul play!!!!!
Aw, but you live in SoCal… Don't you think you should do what the SoCal people want? hehe. :P
Are 30 votes enough to be statistically significant? 8:-)
it's hot in SoCal, that may be why people think you should shave it… it seems like you'd be cooler without it
So my vote was obvious then? My husband has one which he grew back in 2001 or 2002 and I haven't seen a clean face since…
I missed out on this contest. I had to keep clicking on your picture so that I could see your face well enough to see what the goatee looks like. How about posting a picture of you without it and one of you with it (that we can easily see) and let's do this again :)
Woo! Yessss! *fist pump*
RATS!!! You did the poll while I was away from my computer for 10 days. I did vote but I fear it was too late to be counted,