Article: NADER LOOKS TO MADISON AS FRIENDLY OASIS.(Local/State)

Ben Manski believes that presidential candidate Ralph Nader will not just do well in Madison this fall.

The veteran University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and community organizer thinks Nader will take the city.

``If you talk to people in Madison, you don't hear any enthusiasm for Al Gore and George Bush,'' says Manski, a Midwest field organizer for Nader, who is expected to be nominated for president this weekend by the national Green Party.

``Madison has a tradition of politics that moves outside of the corrupt center; we have a tradition of supporting third parties; and we have a tradition of backing progressive movements. Nader touches all ...

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