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"    Published in the November issue of Esquire, which closed a few weeks ago Dean Heller is the accidental senator, assuming this seat by appointment after Republican John Ensign&amp;#039;s resignation from the seat following one of the more hilarious sex scandals ever to hit the family-values crowd. Before that, he was in the House, and has the distinction of being the only man alive to be able to vote for Paul Ryan&amp;#039;s budget in both houses of Congress, and is otherwise straight down the line on his party&amp;#039;s litmus tests, voting against TARP, the stimulus, the auto bailout, and the Affordable Care Act. Those votes will cut both ways in Nevada, which has been hit as hard as any state but was spared even worse by economic stimulus from Washington. Traditionally Nevada is essentially two states \u2014 Las Vegas and everything else \u2014 but has recently been trending Democratic. Obama won the state by almost thirteen points.  The state represents the Democrats&amp;#039; third-best chance to pick up a Republican seat, after Massachusetts and Maine. Heller&amp;#039;s opponent is Las Vegas congresswoman Shelley Berkley, who is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for pushing legislation that would benefit her husband&amp;#039;s medical practice. Not that ethics problems are necessarily a liability in Nevada. Advantage: Heller CLICK HERE FOR ONGOING COVERAGE OF THE RACE IN NEVADA, AND HERE FOR MORE PREDICTIONS "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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