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is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: and good evening, everyone. with less than a week now before the midterm elections, voters appear ready to show incumbents the door. in a cbs news/"new york times" poll out tonight eight of 10 likely voters say it's time to throw the rascals out. now, voters often give congress bad mark but still like their own representative. not this time. well over half say they want someone new. that's bad news for the majority democrats and so is this-- in house races, 46% of likely voters plan to choose the republican. only 40% the democra...

this election as a referendum on president obama, 22% say they'll vote for a house candidate will be a vote for the president, but 32% say it will be a vote against him. and two years ago, independent voters played a vital role in president obama's victory, but this year, 47% of independent voters plan to vote republican in the house elections, only 32% plan to vote democratic. now, the white house says the way to turn this tide around, if they can at all, is to get the president out there on the campaign trail to fire up the democratic base, especially young and minority voters, so ...