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John Kerry's top 10 neighbors are a tight mix of political journalists and news publishers — with no single standout pulling away from the pack.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.99 down to 0.98 across the top 10, a band so narrow that no one neighbor dominates. The leading entry is Chris Hayes at 0.99, followed immediately by Politico at 0.98 and PBS NewsHour at 0.98. Al Gore and Chelsea Clinton both sit at 0.98 as well, and The Daily Beast, HuffPost Politics, Christiane Amanpour, The Hill, and Arianna Huffington round out the ten within a 0.01-point spread of each other.
Tallying by subcategory: five of the ten neighbors are Journalists (Hayes, Amanpour, Huffington, and two others), three are News Publishers (Politico, The Daily Beast, HuffPost Politics, The Hill — actually four), and two are Politicians (Gore) or Professionals (Chelsea Clinton). More precisely: four are Journalists, four are News Publishers, one is a Politician (Gore), and one is a Professional (Chelsea Clinton). Kerry himself is a Politician, making Gore the only fellow Politician in the top 10. The dominant pull is from political media — journalists and news publishers together account for eight of the ten neighbors — rather than from other politicians.
This pattern suggests Kerry's audience is defined less by political affiliation alone and more by sustained engagement with political news infrastructure.
