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Sen. Lisa Murkowski's top 10 nearest neighbors are overwhelmingly political journalists — eight of the ten, spanning a narrow similarity band from 0.92 to 0.93 — with only one fellow politician and one government official rounding out the set.
The shape is flat: scores run from Anthony Scaramucci at 0.93 down to Andrea Mitchell at 0.92, a spread of less than one percentage point across all ten positions. No single neighbor dominates. The cluster is defined by its subcategory composition: Kasie Hunt (0.93), Philip Rucker (0.93), Natasha Bertrand (0.93), Kelly O'Donnell (0.93), Katy Tur (0.93), David Corn (0.92), Matthew Miller (0.92), and Andrea Mitchell (0.92) are all Journalists. The two non-journalists — Scaramucci (Government Officials) and Adam Parkhomenko (Politicians, 0.93) — are the only exceptions in the top 10. Murkowski's own subcategory, Politicians, appears just once among the ten neighbors.
The audience shape here belongs to the political press corps more than to elected officials — a senator whose followers look, compositionally, like the audience of a Washington bureau chief.
