Nominations for the
Wordslinger Golden Horseshoe Award for Best CapitolFax.Com Commenter of 2020 were a bit all over the place, but Oswego Willy’s nomination of
OneMan really hit the mark. OneMan was once a blogger’s blogger, but now he posts here and on Twitter (under his real name, which I won’t divulge). I’ve known him for quite a long while. He truly deserves this award…
What’s so incredibly special and important about his comments in our 2020, - OneMan - has been so true to his politics, and honest to the facts applying them. Not once did I read a mental gymnastics to talk politics to his political takes. In an different time, while our politics were (and still are) shades different, his honesty to his politics were unwavering in a political season wanting shading as its base.
Best House Republican Campaign Staffer:
Jayme Odom who took over a difficult situation and thanks to hard work, keeping people on task and organization, won several house races that many had written off. She also has lived in southern, central and northern Illinois so she understands the political differences across the state and that winning in the suburbs and winning in Southern Illinois need two very different approaches.
Best House R Campaign Staffer - This was Jamie Odom’s first cycle as the top HRO staffer, and I believe she most deserves this award. Managing that many campaigns with barely a million pledged, while also navigating the changing demographics and voting patterns caused largely by Trump (i.e. downstate pick-up and suburban holds/losses) and still maintaining to be +1 net while being outspent roughly 10-to-1.