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Finally, an issue both Democrats and Republicans agree on: term limits. Nearly 8 in 10 American voters like the idea of imposing fixed time limits in office for all members of Congress -- including their own senators and representatives.

A Fox News

poll released Friday found that 78 percent of voters favor establishing term limits for Congress. That's nearly five times as man

y as oppose limiting the number of terms members can serve (16 percent).

Large majorities of Republicans (84 percent), Democrats (74 percent) and independents (74 percent) favor the idea.

The poll also shows 70 percent of voters disapprove of the job Congress is currently doing. That includes most Republicans (84 percent) as well as more than half of Democrats (54 percent), despite the fact that their party controls both houses of Congress. About one voter in five gives Congress a thumbs up (22 percent approve).

Moreover, 68 percent of voters are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today. That's up a bit from 65 percent dissatisfied in June, and up significantly from 53 percent in April 2009. Still, it's an improvement from the 79 percent who said they were unhappy with the way things were going the week before President Obama took office (January 13-14, 2009).

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The number of displeased voters is more than double the 32 percent who say they are satisfied with how things are going today. And while that's down from a high of 46 percent satisfied in April 2009 (after Obama had been in office about 100 days), it's up from 20 percent satisfied in January 2009.

The Fox News Poll involved telephone interviews with 900 randomly chosen registered voters and was conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corp. from September 1 - September 2. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for the total sample.

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Fox News Poll: 78 Percent Favor Term Limits On Congress

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