Washington, D.C. - Days after several gun control measures failed to pass in the U.S. Senate, House Democrats decided to take matters into their own hands and stage a protest on the floor of the house chamber.

Independents are more likely to disapprove of Congress than voters who identify as Republican or Democrat according to a June Gallup poll.

Fifty-five percent of independents say Congress is doing a "poor" or "bad" job, compared to 54 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of Republicans. Overall, 53 percent of Americans view Congress' performance negatively, according to the poll.

For the third consecutive election, the Illinois 10th congressional district will see the same candidates battle each other in a race where independent voters could make the difference.

A new Gallup poll says that two-thirds of Americans now believe that the political system is broken in how we choose the president of the United States.

A supermajority of America is soured on the whole process that has stood since 1856, when the Republicans joined Democrats in the use of political conventions to determine their party's candidate for president.

As the 2016 U.S. presidential election draws nearer, millennials across the nation are coming to terms with the fact that Bernie Sanders' nomination just isn't likely. With the free-thinking, progressive-minded Sanders all but out of the picture at this point, it's time to consider the important issues of the Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton presidential race.

San Diego, CALIF.- By a vote of 4-1, the San Diego City Council Rules Committee agreed to send Mark Kersey’s marijuana tax initiative to the City Attorney’s office for legal sharpening and then to the full City Council on July 11th. The Council will then decide whether to put councilman Kersey’s measure on the November ballot. District 6 city councilman Chris Cate was the lone dissenting vote.

The 2016 primaries have been fraught with controversy. Stories of purging, voter confusion, registration swaps, and lawsuits against state officials and practices have been popping up across the nation. If democracy functions best when the most people participate, then democracy during the 2016 primary season suffered.

While many of the lawsuits derive from inter-party competition between Republicans and Democrats, it is ultimately voters receiving the short end of the stick.

A recent poll shows that presumptive nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have record-high unfavorability ratings: 55 percent and 70 percent, respectively. Yet despite their unpopularity, the general electorate may not be exposed to third party candidates as an alternative.

I've spent the majority of my adult life either self-employed or in school studying the actions of consumers from a business, then a psychological perspective.

When news broke of the Trump campaign's plea for $100k, I immediately had a different view on the information -- even writing a short Facebook post of my thoughts as it was breaking.