There was no question who my wife and I were going to vote for in our local congressional race in Southwest Florida. I’ve known the Republican candidate, Casey Askar, and his family for many years.
He is a faith-filled Catholic father of seven who believes that human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death, and that embryos created through artificial methods should be protected from purposeful destruction.
But after we voted early, I decided to check on what the polls were saying.
Not that I was worried that Casey would lose. Florida’s 22nd congressional district was redrawn last year and now leans fairly heavily Republican. In fact, Trump would have won it by almost 11 points in 2024. So should Casey, I thought.
Yet I was surprised to find that, according to the polls, my pro-life candidate was in danger of losing to his abortion-minded opponent, Pia Dandiya.
The earliest polls either had Dandiya ahead 46-44 (Impact Research) or had the two candidates tied 50-50 (Tavern Research). The latest poll, carried out by something called RedBox Research, had Casey losing to Dandiya by one point, 45-46.
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