New York's upstate District 23 is currently represented in Congress by Republican incumbent John McHugh. At the beginning of the cycle, the district did not appear to be in contention. The NRCC was not worried about it, and the DCCC was not interested in it. They were content to let the 23rd remain a red backwater, unaffected by the November winds that are going to sweep all the other Republicans out to sea like the flotsam that floated into the Gulf when Katrina roared through the Gulf region and knocked Trent Lott's house flat as a pancake.
Enter our candidate, Dr. Bob Johnson: