Which campaign is really in trouble?August 5th, 2004 The Baehr EssentialsBased on events of the past few months, the Kerry Edwards ticket should now have vaulted to a comfortable lead of between five and ten points. In April, American casualties in Iraq soared to their highest one month level since the war began. The following month came the revelation of the Abu Ghraib scandal. In early July, Senator John Kerry picked John Edwards as his running mate to almost universal media acclaim. The Democratic convention went off smoothly, and Kerry’s acceptance speech to a decent size TV audience was generally well...