Since he announced his candidacy, Barack Obama has been struggling with accusations that he is a Muslim. The whole exercise would be comical if it wasn’t sad.

(Anyway, there should not be “accusations” that anyone is a Muslim, or any other faith for that matter. It not against the law to be Muslim. No one is accusing Mitt Romney of being a Mormon, right? Okay…Maybe it’s because he is a Mormon.)

Unfortunately, there are still a sampling of simple folks who choose believe the canard that the president is a Muslim (hello Donald Trump).

This morning’s Public Policy Polling survey from Alabama and Mississippi asked respondents what religion they thought the president was.

45% of GOP voters in Alabama and 52% in Mississippi said “Muslim.” A paltry 14% in Alabama and an even more depressing 12% in Mississippi said “Christian,” and the rest, for one reason or another, were unsure.