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Right now michele bachmann is still going at it in iowa on her second stop of the day, touring a local manufacturing company. this, despite a call now for her to throw in the towel on a campaign that's fallen like a lead balloon. a call to quit that's come from none other than the american majority, a major tea party group. they say of the bachmann campaign, "it is clear that the campaign has become less about reform and more about her personal effort to stay relevant and sell books." on monday, bachmann had her five-person new hampshire team quitting en masse, citing, and i'm quoting here, ru...

He only has about 30 purse percent of the voters. 70% are anybody but mitt. they started dating michele bachmann and didn't like her. then they dated perry. didn't like him. the same is happening with cain. now that he gets a lot of attention, the 9-9-9 plan has huge holes in it. the numbers don't add up on a host of issues. he too does not seem like that. >> at the end of the day, he has the support he had and drop a couple of points and he didn't blow like a lead balloon the way michele bachmann did. >> here picked up the votes that perry lost. those voters are very, very fickle and they are...

They're livid. they're furious. >> sure. understandably so. tepco is attempting to make some amends by giving compensation to some of the local communities. how did that go over? >> reporter: well, it went over like a lead balloon really. first of all, this is a first step and it's kind of ceremonial in the sense that this was not meant to be a major payout to victims oar those affected by the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. it was a token. many didn't like it because it was so extremely small it almost seemed insulting. 1 $138,000 to each community. they gave it back. by the time we distribu...

Here, nic. how did his speech go down on the ground? >> like a lead balloon. we talked to youth here who have been a lot of the emotion and a lot of the drive. the sort of facebook part of the revolution here. and energy on the streets. they are the ones we've been talking to tonight. young students, 19, 20 years old. and they say, what's he going to do? just reach up all the same guys in government and thank them? is he going to bring them back? they're telling us they're not going to rest. they're going to keep coming out and demonstrating. one of the crazy weirdnesses about this situation r...

Giffords' improving condition and we'll hear from her husband, mark kelly, who is about to make a statement. also, you'll get the chance to meet this fantastic kid, a fourth grader who sold his toys to raise money for the congresswoman. and a bill is being proposed in one state to grade parents on their kids' educational performance. that's right, parents, how you doing out there? this is going to go over like a lead balloon, right? we'll detail it, just ahead. ♪ [ chuckles ] ♪ over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents. so start...