Will '94 or '98 Jeb Bush show up in 2016?

(USA Today) - A crowded Republican primary with candidates calling for dramatic policy changes driven by conservative values — and Jeb Bush leading the field in polling and fundraising. That's the current outlook for 2016 — but it also describes the Florida governor's race in 1994, when Bush made his first run for elective office. Then, Bush won the primary and lost in November. What he learned from that defeat influenced how he ran and won in 1998 — and how he may run for president now. "I earned it by working hard to connect with people on a level that truly mattered,'' Bush said last month at the Detroit Economic Club of his 1998 win. If he officially enters the presidential race this year, "that experience on a national scale has to be part of the strategy." What's not clear is how well his model will hold up in a combative 2016 primary. "His problem is, the party's not '98,'' says Matthew Corrigan, a University of North Florida political scientist and author of Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida. "It's moved further to the right.'' Read more.