JEB! is the "Forty Percent Man!

Lee Majors?  Are you kidding? Now there is a REAL
has been. I am royal, entitled, and I will buy this election!

The Crown Prince may not be Lee Majors in his prime.  He can't leap tall buildings in one bionic bounce, and he has no bionic eye or ear for what the American people really need, but he is raising a heck of a lot more money than six million dollars in his vain quest for the White House, and yet it just won't get him much more than forty percent in any poll. JEB! is the "Forty Percent Man!"

(US News & World Report) - Like many candidates before him, Jeb Bush has rendered early polling in the 2016 presidential race pointless.

"The polls are totally irrelevant," he told Fox News' Megyn Kelly this week. "Everyone needs to take a chill pill on the polls until it gets closer."

But regardless of their ultimate predictive value, a reading of voters' early preferences and impressions still provides a snapshot of the bumpy road the son of one former president and the brother of another faces to the Republican nomination.

And unless the metric is presumed money being raised, it's difficult to name Bush the front-runner.

About half of the GOP seems firmly skeptical of him, either because he's part of a political dynasty or because he's breaking with conservative orthodoxy on immigration reform and education standards.

is favorability rating is in negative territory among first-in-the-nation Iowa caucusgoers, a number that had to factor in to his decision to skip the August straw poll in the Hawkeye State for another event. (A Bush aide denies this.) In New Hampshire, where Republicans hue more moderate, he's in better shape, but faces fierce competition in a primary he likely has to win.

Here's the scouting report on where Bush stands less than nine months before voting begins – and it's rife with red flags. Read more.