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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller discussed how the work of the CFPB and the consumer complaints we receive help his office serve consumers in Iowa. // Credit: CFPB flickr In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, legislators scrambled to pass comprehensive financial reform. With the economy in shambles, Congress was under tremendous pressure to not only fix the situation, but make sure it didn't happen again. Efforts culminated in the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protecti

Justin Amash One of the youngest U.S. Representatives and Chairman of the House Liberty Caucus, Justin Amash is among the most independent members of the House GOP and strives to distance himself from party groupthink. The New York Times noted in 2011 that Amash, “has not voted with the majority 25 percent of the time, the most of any House Republican.” He was recently criticized by GOP strategist Karl Rove, asserting Amash's “staunch libertarian stances on legislation as antithetical to tackl

Many thoughts go through your head the moment you really, truly decide to run for governor. Even more thoughts go through it when you know it will be as an independent. If you’re doing the hard work of very deliberately planning the many details of your campaign, the questions at first are almost nonstop: “How will my family and friends take this?” “What about staff, headquarters, and fundraising?” “Which are the best ways to reach voters with what I know is a credible message?” “How do I

An IVN article revealed the top five states with the highest number of registered independent voters. Surprisingly, a majority of these states still have primary elections that disenfranchise this growing segment of the population. Massachusetts, Alaska, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut lead the nation with the highest percentages of independent or no party preference voters, hovering between 43 and 52 percent. However, despite the fact that in each of these states independents are mor

Friday, June 14th 2013 was flag day, a day which tends to go uncelebrated, and about which most people know very little. This post will be a brief detour from my continuing series on the different facets of the Kiera Wilmot Bottle Bomb story. It looks long, and it is, but most of it is pictures.  As you look through the various images included here, I hope you will contrast the actual origins of the U.S. flag, as it was originally adopted by the Founding Fathers, and contrast that with the nic

One-fifth of adults (20%) view both political parties unfavorably, with political party favorability down from the post-election hype of November 2012. While Democrats enjoy a 7 percentage point lead when it comes to favorability ratings, favorability of both the major parties is below their historical averages. "More broadly speaking, these depressed favorability ratings appear to be a continuation of a longer trend that has seen Americans sour on the two parties." With confidence in Congres

(Credit: DailyKos.com) There is only one week until the Massachusetts US Senate special election and the two contenders find themselves in a tightening race. The deciding factor may come down to the independents' share of the vote. Vacated when President Barack Obama nominated John Kerry to become secretary of state, a US Senate seat in Massachusetts became vacant for the second time in four years. In 2009, Sen. Edward Kennedy died and Republican legislator Scott Brown won a special election i

Out of the 28 states that record party affiliation upon registering to vote, Massachusetts, Alaska, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Connecticut have the highest percentage of independent or no party preference voters in the country. Unaffiliated voters in Massachusetts and Alaska are the majority with about 53 percent of voters in both states declining to register with a party. At the top of the list is Massachusetts with 53 percent of registered voters declining to state a party preference. Out

, yet the Republican and Democratic parties have held a duopoly on the state Legislature for over 123 years. Evan Falchuk, the 2014 gubernatorial candidate of the newly formed United Independent Party, hopes to change this. Falchuk believes the people of Massachusetts are not adequately represented by the GOP or the Democratic Party. “What we don’t have is a functioning, multi-party democracy,” he said. In a recent DAPA Research poll, 58 percent of respondents stated they believe the state sho

Credit: Washington Times Can libertarianism lead to GOP victories in blue states? Rand Paul says yes. The junior senator from Kentucky has been trekking through historically Democratic strongholds lately to test this theory. Most recently, he visited arguably the bluest of blue states, California. Speaking with giants from Silicon Valley, Paul sought to explore the potential for Republicans to reach an electorate they have longed forfeited. Writing in the Washington Times, Paul said, "I thin