TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush has a problem, and it’s called Common Core.

The former governor of Florida is an adamant supporter of the federally-driven education standards that have grown increasingly unpopular with voters from across the political spectrum, but they are loathed by conservatives in particular as a prime example of Big Government overreach.

Conservative columnist George Will recently explained that Bush has several issues working against him as he mulls a run for the White House in 2016.

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Bush has “four strikes against him – Common Core, immigration, his name, and the big sign on his back that says establishment choice,” Will told Fox News, according to the Miami Herald.

Bush’s support for Common Core could be a major issue.

“This is a defining issue for our grassroots base,” Will said.

As the public has continuously raised issues with many aspects of Common Core in recent years – from the federal government’s role in bribing states to adopt it, to concerns about the rigor of the national standards – Bush has doubled down on his support.

He launched Conservatives for Higher Standards to promote Common Core, while other potential conservative presidential contenders have backed away from the standards, or worked to repeal them, the Herald reports.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, of Florida, isn’t a fan, and neither is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has taken his opposition a step farther and sued the federal government over Common Core in August after a state court blocked his attempt to repeal the standards, according to Politico.

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Lawmakers in several states like Indiana and South Carolina and others have dropped Common Core, while numerous others are considering legislation to do the same this year.

Overall, public support for Common Core is at an all-time low.

“Sixty percent of Americans oppose the use of Common Core standards, based on a PDK/Gallup Poll released in August,” according to the Tampa Bay Times.

“Of the Republicans surveyed, 76 percent said they objected to the new benchmarks. Those opposed said Common Core limits ‘the flexibility that teachers have to teach what they think is best.’”

FreedomWorks’ director of grass roots Noah Wall believes Common Core could be an issue that drives some people to the polls in 2016, and that could spell trouble for those who support the standards.

“This really galvanized a new generation of moms who are otherwise not necessarily conservatives,” Wall told the Times. “But this is an issue that gets them involved in a way no other issue really has, because you’re dealing with their kids.”

Emmett McGroarty, education advisor for the American Principles Project, also believes Bush’s support for Common Core could be very hard to overcome.

“It’s a political death fight for him,” McGroarty told the Times. “Now that he’s dug his heels in, his only chance is a full-sale admission that this was bad, it was a bipartisan train wreck and that the standards are of low quality.”

APP has been particularly effective at bringing attention to the stimulus funds offered to states by the Obama administration initiative “Race to the Top” to adopt the standards, as well as the federally funded testing consortia.

Others believe the fight against Common Core could blow over by the time the 2016 elections roll around.

Columbia University Teachers College professor Jeffrey Henig pointed to the problems launching the Obamacare website many thought would play into the 2014 elections as evidence that the opposition to Common Core could be a non-issue in the presidential election.

“We might see the same thing with Common Core,” he said. “A year from now, it’s going to seem a little less toxic and a little less alien.”