One of two full-time bloggers hired in a headline-making new media experiment by WKRN-TV Channel 2 in Nashville, Kleinheider went on to edit Post Politics, a branded political blog of NashvillePost.com.
From 2005 until 2011, he worked as a reporter for NashvillePost.com, a local business and political news website in Nashville, Tennessee, and related publications.
Stranch was one of several candidates whom NashvillePost.com had reported in April 2009 was being considered for the seat, along with U.S. District Judge William Joseph Haynes, Jr., U.S. District Judge Bernice B. Donald, Nashville criminal defense attorney David Raybin and Vanderbilt University Law School Professor Lisa Schultz Bressman.