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The typical american income after taxes -- sorry, after inflation before taxes is lower than it was in 1997. so you may not have lost your job and you're grateful for that, but you don't feel didn't. >> that's something the republicans have to capitalize on if they're going to be successful. here's how they responded on the campaign trail to the good number today. >> well, i think it's good. it's going in the right direction. but if you measure unemployment by the method that we used to measure it by, it would be twice that. >> i think there might just be some optimism that maybe republicans a...