At least that’s the case in South Carolina, according to new complaints by the folks over at Faith in Public Life.

Following up on earlier complaints that exit pollsters were only asking Republicans-but not Democrats-if they were evangelicals, it seems nothing changed in the recent South Carolina primaries.

Faith in Public Life tells us that “Republican SC primary voters were asked if they were Protestant, Catholic, LDS, Jewish, Muslim, etc., how often they attend religious services, if they would describe themselves as born-again of evangelical Christians, and how much it matters to them that a candidate shares their religious beliefs. Dem primary voters were asked only about frequency of religious service attendance.”

The explanation from the National Explanation Pool (again, via Faith in Public Life) is that “We have limited real estate on our questionnaires. We choose the questions based on our internal editorial discussions. To protect the integrity of the process, we routinely do not talk publicly about what questions are on our surveys.”

I think the folks at Faith in Public Life have a point. Apparently, pollsters think you can be evangelical and Republican, but not Democrat and evangelical, and that is guaranteed to only skew the poll results. No wonder why Mike Huckabee’s had such a hard time figuring out who’s going to vote for him, or to be more precise, why they didn’t.