Nearly two thirds of Americans believe U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to work with Republicans in Congress to fix the country's problems, according to a latest Gallup poll released on Monday.

The USA Today/Gallup conducted on Nov. 9 through 12 found that 65 percent of Americans are confident that Obama, after winning a second term, will make a "sincere effort" to work with the Republicans in Congress to find solutions acceptable to both parties.

The result is similar to previous findings in November 2010, two years into Obama's first term and after Republicans won back control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections. However, the confidence, once hit 80 percent in 2008 with high expectations on Obama, has leveled down due to the partisan gridlock in Congress.

Confidence in the two major parties in Congress is up slightly from 2010, said the new poll. A majority by 57 percent of Americans expect the Democrats in congress to work with the other party's leaders while 48 percent think the same of the Republicans in Congress.

However, partisans show different confidence in their own leaders to reach across the aisle. 98 percent and 89 percent respectively of Democrats believe Obama and the Democrats in Congress will try earnestly to work with the other party while only 64 percent of Republicans believe the Republicans in Congress will do the same.

The poll also found that overall two-thirds of Americans say the best outcome for the country would be for both sides to compromise equally in the current negotiations to head off the so- called fiscal cliff, a series of tax increases and automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect in January without Congress ' action.

The need to reach a budget compromise before the upcoming new year to avert automatic spending cuts and tax increases nobody wants, provides an immediate test of whether both sides will live up to Americans' expectations for bipartisanship, wrote Lydia Saad of Gallup in the analysis.