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Seven of Chris Murphy's ten nearest neighbors by audience shape are journalists — not fellow politicians. The top 10 scores compress into a narrow band from 0.98 to 0.97, consistent with a flat shape, but the subcategory composition tells the real story: this is predominantly a journalist-adjacent audience cluster.
Katy Tur leads at 0.98, followed closely by Daniel Dale at 0.98 and Natasha Bertrand at 0.98, with Steve Kornacki, Robert Costa, David Frum, and Charles P. Pierce rounding out the journalist contingent. The remaining three neighbors are Preet Bharara (Professionals, 0.98), Molly Jong-Fast (Authors, 0.98), and Sally Yates (Politicians, 0.98) — the only other politician in the top 10. No other Politicians subcategory entry appears among the top neighbors besides Yates.
The flat shape means no single neighbor dominates; the audience overlaps broadly and evenly across this cluster. What defines the cluster is not political peers but political journalists and adjacent commentators — a pattern where the audience composition mirrors the media ecosystem surrounding politics more than the politician peer group itself.
