David Perlmutter, a KU journalism professor and the journalism school’s associate dean for graduate studies and research, announced in an e-mail to one of his classes this afternoon that a C-SPAN crew will cover next Tuesday’s panel “Blog to the Chief: The Impact of Political Blogs on the 2008 Election” at the Dole Institute of Politics.The scheduled panel members include: Patrick Hynes, of Ankle Biting Pundits and a blog consultant for Sen. John McCain’s Straight Talk America; Jerome Armstrong of MyDD; Erick Erickson, managing editor of RedState.com; Joan McCarter, a contributing editor at Daily Kos; and Scott Johnson, co-founder of Power Line Blog.Ankle Biting Pundits MyDD RedState.com Daily Kos Power LinePerlmutter, author of “Blogwars: The New American Political Battleground,” will moderate the panel, scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. The panel is part of the Dole Institute’s Presidential Lecture Series.- Contributed by George Diepenbrock