Could November elections lead to a government shutdown as bad as 1995?

Easily.

Jimmy Carter said on Nightly News the country is more polarized than during the Civil War:

“This country has become so polarized that its almost astonishing…. Not only with the red and blue states… President Obama suffers from the most polarized situation in Washington that we have ever seen – even maybe than the time of Abraham Lincoln and the initiation of the war between the states.”

(Comment at 2:25)

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