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Condoleezza Rice's top 10 neighbors span politicians, journalists, news publishers, a research organization, a TV personality, and a government official — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest. That breadth is the defining structural fact: the shape is broad, and the scores compress into a tight band from 0.92 down to 0.86.
Mitt Romney leads at 0.92, the only neighbor to clear that threshold. Behind him, National Review (0.90) and Mary Katharine Ham (0.88) form the next tier, followed closely by Carly Fiorina (0.88) and the Cato Institute (0.87). Tallying the subcategories across all ten: four are Journalists (Mary Katharine Ham, Kirsten Powers, David French, Jonah Goldberg), three are Politicians (Mitt Romney, Carly Fiorina, Karl Rove), two are News Publishers (National Review, RealClearPolitics), and one is a Research Organization (Cato Institute). Rice's own subcategory — Politicians — accounts for only three of the ten neighbors; the dominant kind in the set is actually Journalists. The cluster is center-right political media: opinion journalists, conservative and center-right publications, and a libertarian think tank, with a handful of politicians whose audiences overlap that same readership.
The broad shape here signals an audience that is not tightly bound to any single figure or outlet but is distributed across the full ecosystem of center-right political commentary.
