Peter Steinfels of the NYT has an article on the continuing dispute between national election pollsters and Democrats about the pollsters’ exit poll questions. Basically, Republicans get asked about faith, Democrats, for the most part, not so much.

Howard Dean and other Democrats say this feeds into a media bias that portrays Dems as less religious than Republicans.

The National Election Pools continues to say: “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.”

That answer seems disingenous. The results of the surveys are made public, as, in many cases, are the questions. That’s how we know Dems weren’t asked about faith in the first place. So what gives?