By the rules of royal succession — and the voting habits of the Republican electorate — Jeb Bush should be the 2016 Republican nominee.

For five decades, you could make good money simply betting in the GOP presidential primary on the establishment candidate whose “turn” it was. But that rule no longer seems to apply. Jeb, despite the history, is hardly inevitable. He’s not even the frontrunner.

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