After MoveOn.org [3] accused the Gallup polling firm of using a survey methodology that stacks the deck in favor of Republicans [4], CNN (which uses Gallup) responded with a news segment that "implicitly confirmed a criticism of itself that was leveled in the MoveOn ad: the charge that CNN winds up 'acting as unquestioning promotional partners [with Gallup], rather than as critical journalists.'" Gallup's polls have shown a substantial lead for Bush, but other recent polls say that Kerry and Bush are dead even [5].