Ben Rhodes' top 10 neighbors are dominated by journalists — eight of the ten slots belong to that subcategory — with the remaining two split between a Politician and a Government Official, making this one of the most category-uniform clusters in the data.
Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. The scores across the top 10 span just 0.99 to 0.99 — specifically, David Fahrenthold leads at 0.99, followed by Maggie Haberman at 0.99, Glenn Thrush and Jonathan Swan both at 0.99, and Judd Legum at 0.99 — a band so tight the shape is classified as flat. No single neighbor pulls away from the pack. The eight journalists in the top 10 include Julia Ioffe (0.99), Josh Dawsey (0.99), Nate Silver (0.99), and Ashley Parker (0.99). The two non-journalists are Dan Pfeiffer, classified as a Politician (0.99), and Ronald Klain, the one other Government Official in the top 10 (0.98). No other subcategory appears in the top 10.
The flat, journalist-heavy shape indicates that Rhodes' audience is drawn from the same pool as political reporters and media figures who cover Washington closely — an audience defined less by any single anchor than by consistent engagement with that entire ecosystem.