DCist was pleased to learn today that we’ve been selected as the official blog to represent the District of Columbia at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. DCist will be part of the State Blogger Corps, which is a new cadre of bloggers who cover state and local politics that the Democratic National Committee has invited to sit with their own delegations on the convention floor. You can find a full list of the blogs that were chosen from each state over here. The convention isn’t until August, so in the meantime we’ll be drifting off to sleep every night to the dulcet tones of DNC Chairman Howard Dean, who sent us his congratulations via the YouTube video above.

Oh, and to answer your question before you ask it, yes, we’ve also put in a request to cover D.C.’s delegation at the GOP Convention in Minneapolis, but we haven’t heard anything back from them yet. Maybe the fact that the District votes 9 to 1 for Democrats has something to do with that?