Mississippi is in the company of some pretty big states, including California, Florida, and Michigan.
We have a population one-third the size of Michigan, one sixth the size of Florida, and not even a tenth the size of California. 
Twenty one percent of the population in these three states and Mississippi is underemployed.
This puts us in a group that has the highest underemployment rate in the country.
Anyone working thirty hours a week or less but wanting full-time employment is underemployed.
The average underemployment rate for the country is 18.6%. our rate is 21%, that puts us 2.4% behind the rest of the country.
Thirty percent of us rank the economy and employment as our two most important problems with healthcare and immigration coming in at less than six percent.
The majority of us are dissatisfied with the way things are going, 71% of us mention economic problems as being the most important issue. 
On the other hand the percentage of us who are satisfied with the way things are going is as high as 22%.
That’s the highest it’s been since last spring. This increase is probably due to the optimism of democrats, 37% say they are satisfied with the way things are going, while only 10% of the republicans are satisfied.
The 22% satisfaction rate is good for Obama,
but It’s still lower than the satisfaction rating for any recent president that was re-elected.
Historically we don’t give presidents a second chance when we see the economy as the most important issue.
Seventy one percent of us see the economy as the most important issue and 59% of us disapprove of the way Obama has handled the economy.
At the same time congress has a record low approval rating of 10%.
Eighty six out of a hundred are dissatisfied with congress.
Even Obama is critical of congress as part of his re-election strategy, but then,
we all give them a very low-grade, so he will be preaching to the choir. 
In Mississippi our economic confidence level has dropped six points since Barack took office.
But we aren’t alone economic confidence dropped in all fifty states in 2011.
Mississippians, just like the rest of the country are more negative about the economy. This is not a good sign for Obama’s re-election campaign.
What do you think, do we want four more Obama years? Leave us a comment.
Source Gallup.com
