I wrote a detailed reply, Wesley, but I see it hasn't gone through.

Maybe I can simplify it further. 17% think Obama is a Muslim. Period.

31% say they "don't know." But realistically few of those can be thinking, "I don't know, but I *do* know that he is *not* a Muslim."

So unless they're ruling it out completely, they're open to the possibility that he *may be* a Muslim. Thus the 48% figure, which admittedly may be a little too high for reasons I'm too tired to write out again. But not way too high.

But the real point isn't precisely how many people think O is or may be a M. The point is how incredibly uninformed roughly half of registered voters really are. Especially since O was being raked over the coals four years ago, repeatedly, for going to the wrong Christian church for too many years. That should have at least proved he was a Christian.

And how about the 40% who don't know Romney is a Mormon? Where have *they* been?