The idea of armed citizens possibly needing to fight their government is pretty much a part of the All-American set of ideologies, so as long as the question is "an armed revolution MIGHT be needed", my guess is that many in the US consider it almost a patriotic duty to answer "yes" to a question like that, no matter who is in power.
Plus there is notable group of disgruntled "liberal lefts" who hate the downturn in civil rights that has been going on for the last decade now. Some of those people will surely say YES in a poll like this. Think "occupy" but more radical.
That said, yeah, propably Obama being in power might have something to do with it. Or not. Obama is really quite a moderate and right-wingish for a democrat. If a more left-leaning democrat had been elected, the crazy Republican media might have more ammo to spin their conspiracy theories about the oncoming socialist takeover. Even if that guy was white.
I'm sure he had been the wrong kind of white anyway.
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