The 2020 FactCheck Awards
Summary
It’s Election Day, which our longtime readers know means it’s time for our just-for-fun awards. Here we recognize some of the campaign ads that made an impression on us — good, bad or otherwise — during the 2020 election cycle.
For example, we were confused by an ad referencing a famously ruthless leader and somehow both over- and underwhelmed by a different ad promoting an ambitious national anthem singer. We also were reminded of an unconventional ad we overlooked in 2010, and a scary TV spot about a break-in was supposed to frighten us.
Read on for more, and don’t forget to vote.
Analysis
Most Confusing Ad About Conservatism
Winner: Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia
Loeffler, a Republican, ran three different ads claiming she’s “more conservative than Attila the Hun,” whom we don’t recall being a conservative icon.
In the ad above, which got the most press attention, the comparison to the brutal leader of the Hunnic Empire comes after a woman notes that Loeffler “was ranked the most conservative senator in America” — at least based on one metric.
From there, the ad flashes back to an imagined scene from the
