I do not think that President Obama’s marriage and “career” will both survive the next year. That is, I predict defeat (either by Dems or Reps!) or divorce, and very possibly both.
He is set up for a mental collapse (if it has not already happened), and the collapse of a bunch of other things. He is loathed by much of the country, distrusted by Democrats, and seeks to enlarge his base through a series of potentially treasonous maneuvers including vote fraud of various sorts. He is about to lose his AG who has been the key to burying the crimes of the President and his permanent campaign staff.
Signs to watch for are increasing isolation of the President by his staff, and more of the “separate flights” shenanigans most recently accented by the Hawaii flap.
The President is not stupid but his wife is, and her bitchy and imperious manner can only get her so far. I think she is about to find out just how far that takes her without Barack’s support. My guess is that listing the daughters as “senior staff” for the taxpayer-funded boondoggle to South Africa in 2011 was a purely Michelle thing, and that if the President or his folks had known about it, they would have stopped it most ricky-tick. I do believe that the ballooned staff of the First Lady has reached a peak, and will be savagely reduced. I think she is shortly to be out of staff and out of options, and that will collapse a part of the President’s stress management arrangement that he hoped he had shored up through next year.