There can be no more unimaginative photo in all of news than the one of a candidate voting.
So we’d like to thank the unidentified man in today’s picture of Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell voting in Louisville today for giving us a reason to care about it.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins