Attention all you political scientist groupies (we know you’re out there!): head over to the Wardman Park Marriott with your cameras and copies of the latest Nation or National Review right away. Because on a weekend where, traditionally, most involved in politics take off for one last weekend away from Swamp City, 6000+ political scientists from the worlds of academia, media, and government are descending on Woodley Park for the annual convention of the American…

And the winners have been revealed on washingtonpost.com’s Best Blog contest for political and election blogs. The contest, which took nominations starting a couple of months ago, had readers decide which blogs were the cream of the crop in topics such as “Most Likely to Last Beyond Election Day,” “Best Rant” and “Best Inside the Beltway.” National Review’s The Corner blog won in several categories; in fact, conservative blogs by and large dominated the entire…