So what’s the definition of Wednesday Morning Quarterbacking if it comes five days after the election?

Florida Gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink, who lost to GOP candidate Rick Scott, had some harsh words for the Obama administration in an interview with Politico days after her loss.

Just two years after all that hope and change, we’re in a much different place as a country.

Now Politico examines the enthusiasm gap in the context of college students: “For college students, it’s so not ’08“. So what happened?

RNC Chairman Michael Steele started July dealing with a video of him knocking the merits of the War in Afghanistan, and since then he’s laid low (even an August fundraiser has been moved to September).

But why was he trying to set up meetings with foreign diplomats?

The most important story on cable news last week has continued into this week – Fox News was back talking about the Shirley Sherrod saga on TV and online.

Bret Baier responded with video evidence to Howard Dean‘s latest charges, while FNC admitted there had been an online “breakdown” in the publication of a story about Sherrod before it was announced she resigned.

Progressives and Obama. They love him, they hate him, they should support him, they’re inevitably disappointed in him. We’ve heard it all. Given that we already have a good idea of how conservatives feel about the president, the media seem increasingly interested in analyzing and discussing the relationship between progressive Americans and President Barack Obama. The Nation and Politico offer two interesting takes: blame it on the political structure vs. blame it on bad politics.

Politico wrote an article today entitled “Immigration pushes Meg Whitman rightward,” detailing how primaries force Republican candidates to trend more and more conservative than their original intent. But it’s the first few paragraphs that contain the biggest kicker – Jonathan Martin recounts a discussion California GOP gubernatorial candidate Whitman had with the site in which she accused her opponent Steve Poizner of “playing hot-button politics with the divisive issue of immigration” by using images of a border fence, something she would never do. Oh really?

After all the media tip-toeing around the issue of Elena Kagan‘s personal life, Politico gets to the bottom of the story by talking to her friends – and they say she’s straight.

With that question seemingly answered, the Daily Show focused on the rest of the information we don’t know about her.

President Barack Obama had an off-the-record lunch yesterday with journalists – his 2nd of 2010.

Yesterday we knew FNC’s Major Garrett, CBS’ Katie Couric and NBC’s Brian Williams were there. Today Politico fills in the blanks with exactly who was in attendance.

To most people that have ever spent more than ten minutes of their lifetime’s exposed to professional politicians, the fact that they will use anything and everything to claw their way into the national spotlight comes as no shock. To Politico‘s Jonathan Martin, it’s an unsettling new side effect of the national conversation in health care reform.

Bill O’Reilly spent several segments last night discussing the tea party movement and attempting to defend Fox News VP of News and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon for his blanket statement about the mainstream media’s ‘hatred’ of the partying. It included a contentious interview with Politico executive editor Jim VandeHei, a talk with Brit Hume (who previously held Sammon’s job) and a “Talking Points” opening (including some ‘original reporting’).

Politico’s Carol Lee chronicled today the increasing desire among Washington elites to stop being told what to do. Apparently President Obama has struck a negative cord with his constant advice on eating, saving money and protecting the environment. In fact, his badgering has become so irritating, trite, and ubiquitous that Lee calls him a “very powerful Dr. Phil.”

Cross Ted Koppel off the list of potential anchors of ABC’s Sunday morning show This Week.

Broadcasting & Cable‘s Marisa Guthrie reports that, despite previous reports, talks have ended between ABC and the former Nightline anchor without an offer.