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KARE-TV selects Hofrenning as election night commentator

Amy Gage
October 22, 2002

Once you've been quoted on public radio ("Morning Edition," "All Things Considered"), had commentary published in a major metropolitan newspaper (the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune) and been interviewed by the likes of ABC News and the Los Angeles Times, what's next? If you're Dan Hofrenning, political science chair at St. Olaf College, you get asked to appear on network television as an election night "color commentator." An expert on religion and politics, and a DFL activist in Northfield, Minn., where he resides, Hofrenning has been tapped to be KARE-11 TV's political commentator at Republican Party headquarters in the Twin Cities from 7 p.m. Nov. 5 until . . . it's over. Hofrenning currently is studying the Norm Coleman/Paul Wellstone U.S. Senate race for the PEW Charitable Trust, which is examining advertising and media strategies in hotly contested Congressional races across the country. The author of the 1995 book In Washington But Not Of It, Hofrenning teaches classes in "American Politics" and "Parties and Elections" at St. Olaf. He and his wife, Nancy Brown, a Lutheran pastor, have two sons, Theo, 8, and Gabe, 5.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.