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Dick Durbin's top 10 nearest neighbors split almost evenly between politicians and journalists, with news publishers rounding out a tightly clustered political-media ecosystem — and no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.97 down to 0.93 across the full top 10, a narrow band with no dominant outlier. Tammy Duckworth leads at 0.97, the only neighbor to clear that threshold, but the gap to the next entry is small. Kyle Griffin (0.94) and Chris Hayes (0.94) follow as journalists, then Daily Kos (0.94) as a website, and The Hill (0.94) as a news publisher. Chelsea Clinton, classified as a Professional, sits at 0.94, while fellow politicians David Axelrod (0.93) and John Kerry (0.93) continue the pattern. Tom Perez (0.93) and Rachel Maddow (0.93) close out the set.
Tallying subcategories across the top 10: four are Politicians, four are Journalists, one is a Website, and one is a News Publisher — with Chelsea Clinton the lone Professional. The center entity is itself a Politician, so the top 10 is a near-even split between same-kind neighbors and political journalists and media outlets. No activists, no entertainers, and no non-political organizations appear in the top 10.
This audience shape reflects a constituency defined by close engagement with both elected officials and the journalists who cover them — a political-media overlap with little separation between the two.
