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Al Gore's top 10 neighbors are journalists and news publishers — not fellow politicians. The subcategory breakdown across the ten closest neighbors is: four Journalists (Arianna Huffington, Chris Hayes, Ari Berman, Christiane Amanpour), three News Publishers (Politico, PBS NewsHour, The Daily Beast), one Professionals (Chelsea Clinton), one Magazines (Mashable), and one Websites (Slate). John Kerry at 0.98 is the only fellow Politician in the top 10.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.98 at the top (Arianna Huffington, 0.98; Chris Hayes, 0.98) down to Slate at 0.97, a spread of roughly one percentage point across all ten. No single neighbor dominates; the cluster is cohesive rather than peaked. The dominant subcategory is Journalists, followed by News Publishers — together accounting for seven of the ten positions. The remaining three slots go to a Professionals, a Magazines outlet, and a Websites property, all within the same narrow band.
What this pattern reveals is an audience defined primarily by media consumption habits rather than partisan political identity: the people who follow Al Gore look most like the people who follow political journalists and left-leaning news outlets, with only one other politician appearing among the ten nearest neighbors.
