At this point popular opinion means nothing. We had the nation’s largest landslide ever just 4 months ago, and Obama is still doing whatever he darn well pleases with impunity. We are not talking about normal politics right now. There is some other factor that is holding the entire electoral process hostage. What the people think doesn’t matter at this point. What matters is what the people will or won’t DO to take the gun out of the hand of the hostage-taker.
Right now the courts say we can’t do anything through them. Right now our elected officials are flipping us the bird. Right now law enforcement is non-existent. Huge rallies are ignored by the media and law-makers.
Seems to me we have 2 lawful options: enact laws at the state level to grant normal people legal standing to do what our government refuses to do, or somehow make it clear to our legislators that if they keep ignoring us they will very seriously regret it.
Besides that, there’s civil disobedience but the pitfall is that anything that allows martial law as a response would be worse than nothing. Refusal to pay taxes might be the civil disobedience that would serve the purpose, but it would only work if the system was so flooded that the IRS couldn’t just haul off individuals to jail.
At the federal level, I see all three branches of government being non-responsive to the people. We once protested against "taxation without representation". Well, now we have representatives, but they seem to ignore us -- so how is our situation improved? They just represent themselves.
There is hope at the state level, but even there, no state has passed a law requiring that a presidential candidate prove his eligibility. I am amazed that this has not happened anywhere. I just don't know what to think.