Immigration Is Looking Like a Lucrative Issue for Jeb Bush's Campaign

It never quite added up: Jeb Bush insisted in 2012 that he backed immigration reform because he was "all about winning," but he held to it in 2015 even as it became clear it would be a huge obstacle to him winning the key primaries. In Iowa, for instance, up to 63 percent of likely caucus goers said Bush's support for immigration reform and the Common Core curriculum standards as deal-killers or considerations in a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll. Convictions aside, the likely 2016 candidate for the Republican nomination was sticking a position that may well be his biggest weakness to the conservatives he will need to make it through the primaries.

But a very good reason may have just become obvious: Immigration reform is a lucrative position.