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The top 10 neighbors in Evan McMullin's similarity graph are dominated by journalists and political figures — a mix that cuts across subcategories rather than clustering tightly around any single one. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 0.98 indicates near-identical audience shape.
The scores span a narrow band from 0.98 to 0.97, consistent with the flat shape classification. Journalists make up four of the ten positions: Daniel Dale (0.98), Richard Engel (0.98), Kaitlan Collins (0.98), and Peter Alexander (0.98). Two fellow Politicians appear — Tim Miller (0.98) and Jen Psaki (0.98) — alongside Michael Beschloss (Authors, 0.98), The Lincoln Project (Political Groups, 0.98), James Comey (Government Officials, 0.97), and Marc E. Elias (Professionals, 0.98). No single subcategory commands the set; instead, the cluster spans journalists, politicians, government officials, and political-adjacent professionals — all orbiting the same audience shape without any one type pulling ahead.
The overall picture is an audience defined by political media consumption broadly, drawn equally to reporters covering politics and to political figures themselves.
