Ann Arbor Democrat Tom Weider knows that your perspective is skewed if you don’t get out of town now and then.
“I always say ‘… as Ann Arbor goes, so goes Berkeley and Madison,'” says the long-time party activist.
Kidding aside, he was ready with a prediction in a recent appearance on WEMU’s “Lynn Rivers Show”: Obama 54 percent of the vote; McCain 46. That’s rounding off the votes that will be cast for minor party candidates.