As much as Mitt Romney struggled to convince conservative Republicans that he was the real deal in 2012, Jeb Bush appears to have a tougher row to hoe. The
Wall Street Journal's side-by-side
comparison of Bush and Romney at this early stage of the nomination process, shows Bush completely lagging among GOP conservatives, the group that makes up about two-thirds of Republican primary voters.
In the graph below, only 33 percent of conservatives hold a positive view of Jeb compared to 28 percent who have a negative view. By contrast, Romney's positives dwarfed his negatives.
In terms of the current field, that
April poll showed Marco Rubio had a favorable/unfavorable rating of 41-to-8 percent and Scott Walker had a 31-to-4 percent favorability rating.
Hillary Clinton's favorable/unfavorable rating among liberals at the time was 72-to-15 percent.