<div><p>A San Diego native, Griffin is the Assistant Director of Communications at the Lugar Center, a DC think tank chaired by retired Senator Richard Lugar. He is a graduate of St. Olaf
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.
A June 8 study published by the National Committee for an Effective Congress frames the effects of redistricting on congressional seats; namely, that the gerrymandering enacted in 2001 and 2011 have created large disparities between voters' intents and election results. The NCEC study introduces a metric called the "