| By Dana Blanton 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 many 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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Time to clean the house... and the
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