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John Boehner's top 10 nearest neighbors are dominated by political journalists and TV news personalities — not fellow politicians. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 0.90 indicates very strong overlap.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.90 at the top to 0.88 at the bottom, a band of less than three points across all ten neighbors. No single entity pulls away from the pack. Kirsten Powers leads at 0.90, followed closely by Chuck Todd at 0.90 and Savannah Guthrie at 0.90. Joe Scarborough (0.89) and Norah O'Donnell (0.89) round out the top five.
Tallying subcategories across the ten neighbors: seven are Journalists (Kirsten Powers, Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, Norah O'Donnell, Katie Couric, Andrea Mitchell, Luke Russert), two are TV Personalities (Savannah Guthrie, Willie Geist), and one is a News Publisher (RealClearPolitics, 0.88). Boehner's own subcategory — Politicians — does not appear once in the top 10. The audience that follows him most closely is the same audience that follows cable and network political correspondents, not other elected officials.
The flat, journalist-heavy cluster suggests Boehner's audience is shaped primarily by political media consumption rather than partisan affiliation or institutional role.
