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Who is south carolina going to put forward? because iowa is a fine state. new hampshire is an interesting place. but the fact of the matter is, they winnow the field down. south carolina is who picks presidents. >> okay. welcome back to "hardball." south carolina picks presidents. that's the history mitt romney faces as he campaigns to win the state on january 21st. coming up in a week and a half. south carolina is known for its take no prisoners politics. and all the republican candidates have their sights set on romney down there. can a mormon win down there among evangelical winners? we'll ...

Who is south carolina going to put forward? because iowa is a fine state, new hampshire is an interesting place. but the fact of the matter is, they whittle the field down. south carolina is who picks presidents. >> welcome back to "hardball." that's a great quote and that's the history mitt romney faces as he campaigns to win the state on january 21st. south carolina is known for its take no prisoners politics. and all the republican candidates have their sights set on romney down there. can a mormon win among evangelical vote erts? we'll see if it even comes up. and the say the hit hard by t...

Not something that's a game ender. >> ed, you've studied republican polling on this. do you guys have information from the 2008 polling, you were on the huckabee campaign then, that indicates what the level of resistance to mormonism is among republican evangelical primary voters, iowa and elsewhere? >> it's somewhere below 25%. it's among democrats equally as important. >> does that mean it's around 20%? >> yeah. >> that's a very big drag. >> it's a big number. pew has done a lot of those studies on this. but i think it's also something everybody tells pollsters what they think. i can tell yo...

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>> it's somewhere below 25%. it's among democrats equally as important. >> does that mean it's around 20%? >> yeah. >> that's a very big drag. >> it's a big number. pew has done a lot of those studies on this. but i think it's also something everybody tells pollsters what they think. i can tell you, this had nothing to do with governor huckabee who obviously was evangelical leader, what have you. i was in a lot of these churches with his candidacy. there are a lot of people who came up to me and said, you can't let the mormon win. as an irish catholic who's seen prejudice in my lifetime in pol...