Don't count it out with these elitist buzzards so out of touch with The People, and actually, in a state of growingly abject HATRED of The People for standing up to their nonsense; the unwashed masses below, from their high and mighty, Obamist know-it-all perspective.
This will seal their fate if anything. Pride and arrogance, the likes of which have never been seen in the White House in our 230+ year history.
I do not think Martial Law would be an electoral winner, unless he actually tried to cancel elections, which I think is slightly less likely than nuclear war. It would, naturally, cause a Civil War, which, if you look at my homepage, would be an extraordinarily bad thing, since either way the Republic would cease to exist.