Jim Webb

The principal candidates in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race took to differing media outlets in the past two days to push their message.

Louisville businessman and Democratic nominee Bruce Lunsford participated in a "liveblogging" session and wrote a "diary" on the liberal political blog DailyKos yesterday, while his opponent, incumbent U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville), made an appearence this morning on the Fox & Friends television program on the Fox News network.

McConnell's three-and-a-half minute spot on the morning program focused exclusively on energy policy, with McConnell continuing his call for increased domestic oil exploration and suggesting that a moratorium on oil shale exploriation be lifted.

Protesters at Thursday's MoveOn.org rally in Louisville

A lunch-hour demonstration in downtown Louisville drew about two dozen protesters together in front of the building housing the district office of Senator Mitch McConnell. The rally was organized by policy advocacy group MoveOn.org as part of its campaign to highlight what they claim are links between the war in Iraq and the current economic downturn.

This year, McConnell is expected to be a favored target for left-leaning policy advocacy groups such as MoveOn.org - a targeting perhaps foreshadowed by Thursday's demonstration.

During the rally, protesters frequently referenced McConnell, and a brief chant of "Mitch McConnell, bring them home. Mitch McConnell, end this war" arose from the handful of protesters.