If anyone can claim to have suffered politically as a result of the Obama Administration’s out-of-touch policies over the past two years, it’s probably Alex Sink. She’s the Democratic Chief Financial Officer of the state of Florida. She was also the Democratic nominee for governor, running against Rick Scott.

Despite running as a Democrat in an anti-Democratic year, she was running a very close campaign, espousing fiscal conservatism and reminding voters of her opponent’s run-in with legal issues in the past. For a while it appeared as if she would pull it out, defying the odds by being elected governor in a pretty red state in 2010.

But in the end, she couldn’t. It was close, so much so that we didn’t know the election results the night of the election. I’m told newspapers in Florida actually went to print with the news that the race was too close to call. But the next day all of the votes had been counted and, despite the closeness of the count, there was no path to victory for her. Sink conceded.

Maybe that little “iCheat” scandal of her own harmed her bid, but I doubt it. It was probably more a case of voters not willing to take a chance on a chief executive from Barack Obama’s party this year. She could hit the right notes, talk about the legal issues of her opponent, and carry the endorsements of Republican sheriffs. But she was still a Democrat — and that killed her bid.

You can imagine she’s angry about that. And she’s speaking out.

Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink pointed an accusatory finger Friday at what she called a “tone-deaf” Obama White House to explain why she narrowly lost her campaign.

In an interview with POLITICO, Sink said the administration mishandled the response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, doesn’t appreciate the political damage done by healthcare reform and argued that her GOP opponent’s strategy of tying her to the president did grave damage to her candidacy in the state’s conservative Panhandle.

“They got a huge wake-up call two days ago, but unfortunately they took a lot of Democrats down with them,” said Sink of the White House.

She added: “They just need to be better listeners and be better at reaching out to people who are on the ground to hear about the realities of their policies as well as politics.”

Sink doesn’t appear to be chalking-up the problem to messaging, as other Democrats have done, but rather to the policies themselves.

“I think they were tone-deaf,” she said. “They weren’t interested in hearing my opinion on what was happening on the ground with the oil spill. And they never acknowledged that they had problems with the acceptance of health care reform.”

The new law, she said, is “unpopular particularly among seniors” — a key voting bloc in the Sunshine State.

Anonymous officials within the administration tell Politico that the only reason Sink was competitive was because of Obama’s involvement. As someone who has seen Obama’s approval numbers in Florida, that’s a pretty clear “bullsh*t” call. The money provided was relatively small ($2 million), especially considering she was facing a millionaire.

And then there’s this:

Multiple Democratic sources familiar with Sink’s campaign, however, said administration officials were more concerned about the candidate’s effort to separate herself from the White House than with helping her win.

“She needed some distance and the smart thing to do was allow her to have that distance,” said a Democratic operative familiar with the race.“That would have served their long-term interest.”

But when the candidate criticized the White House response to the oil spill and specifically a summer speech by Vice President Joe Biden in a POLITICO article, an angry administration official called her to demand she “walk back” her assessment, said two sources familiar with the situation.

Sink didn’t deny the exchange.

The White House was also pissed when Sink didn’t consider it to be in her best political interest to have a photo-op with the president on the tarmac in Miami. She was right, of course, but administration officials saw it as a “snub” to His Majesty, King Barry I.

Even Florida Democratic officials not involved with Sink’s campaign concede that the administration was more of a hindrance than a help. One says Democrats tried to accomplish too many unpopular items in too short a period of time. The end result? Tuesday night.