president, george bush sr. against bob dole and two in the polls, george bush clearly ahead of bob dole back then by 20 points in 1996, early 1995, that stage of the cycle dole was questioning phil gramm. how about george w. bush in 1999 crushing elizabeth dole. you could see they were way out ahead in the cycle. only two recent nominees weren't, john mccain in 2008 and mitt romney in 2011, and both had trouble getting the nomination. where does jeb bush fall if you average all the polls taken, republican polls for president on average, scott walker is leading jeb bush right now, 16.2, 15 points. jeb bush, the supposed front-runner, just 15.8% averaging puts him in that mccain/romney territory, and that's the threat of scott walker. mitt romney was able to survive in 2012 because he had weak opponents and running against herman cain, newt gingrich, rick santorum. jeb bush will be running against scott walker.