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Hofrenning asks: 'What if Ford had won?'

By David Gonnerman '90
January 5, 2007

In an opinion piece in the Star Tribune, Dan Hofrenning of the St. Olaf Political Science Department surmises about what might have happened had Gerald Ford won the presidency in 1976. "Walter Mondale would likely have run against Ronald Reagan in 1980 -- not in 1984," he writes. "Instead of the landslide loss he suffered, Mondale might have won.

"How the world would have changed."

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