Dean Heller’s GOP seat safe?

 CQ Politics figures Dean Heller, GOP holder of the congressional seat in Nevada’s District #2, is safe for re-election in 2010.

CQ says, “Jack Schofield, an 86-year-old who was a state senator in the 1970s, and Reno attorney Ken McKenna are vying for the Democratic nomination, but neither appears to have the profile to mount a threatening challenge to Heller, a former Nevada secretary of state who is viewed as a rising star in state and national Republican politics.”

Dan Hart, a Democratic political consultant based in Las Vegas, agreed that Heller does not face a strong threat in 2010.

“It is such a hard district for Democrats,” Hart said of the largely rural 2nd, which apart from the Reno region is a vast and sparsely populated expanse that takes in all of the state north of metropolitan Las Vegas. Hart said it is hard for Democrats “to get traction up there, especially this year.”

You can check out CQ’s political map here.

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