The political complexity has surprised operatives on both sides of a fight where the widely accepted conventional wisdom is that the party that triggers the shutdown takes the overwhelming amount of the blame. Instead, the stalemate has so far generated little in the way of high-volume outrage, with voters seemingly willing to wait out the drama and financial markets already numb to the day-to-day chaos in Washington…
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