'DAVIS — With the election just under two months away, the rhetoric is heating up on both sides. So to help, one Sacramento-area professor is launching a TV special to try and bring people together.

Sometimes talking politics can be tense—to put it mildly.

"Is our country at a deadlock?" It's the question UC Davis Law Professor Aaron Tang set out to answer and fix through his TV special "Deadlock: An Election Story."

"What tends to happen is Americans become further entrenched in their views," Tang said. "They pick the side they align with and silo up."'