As misery goes, Ryan King appears to be pretty deep in it in the new Mitt Romney video that slams President Barack Obama’s economic stewardship through the story of a struggling, seemingly unemployed college graduate.

“Frustration is the big word,” Ryan says as somber music plays and hard-scrabble images roll by of Midland, Mich. “Anything that I’m qualified for, you know, that people are looking for, they also want experience. And I mean because of the economy and the way it is, there are so many people that are looking for jobs, at the same time my hands are tied, how can I get experience if no one is going to hire me in?”

“Am I struggling right now? Absolutely,” he says.

But in struggling Michigan, where unemployment is 10.3%, Mr. King’s story doesn’t appear to be the worst.

According to his Facebook and MySpace pages, he graduated just last month from Northwood University in Midland, where he studied accounting, was a residential adviser and mail clerk. On May 6, just as he was graduating, he announced that he “got the job, booya!!!” at Quality Marketing Enterprise, a Midland company…