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Kirsten Powers' top 10 nearest neighbors form a tight, mixed cluster of journalists, politicians, government officials, and political professionals — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest.
Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. The shape is flat: scores run from 0.94 down to 0.93 across the top 10, a band of less than 0.02 separating first from tenth. Jonah Goldberg leads at 0.94, followed by Willie Geist at 0.94, S.E. Cupp at 0.94, Bill Kristol at 0.94, and Frank Luntz at 0.93. No single neighbor dominates; the cluster is genuinely even.
Tallying subcategories across the top 10: five are Journalists (Jonah Goldberg, S.E. Cupp, George F. Will, Joe Scarborough, Charlie Sykes — noting that Joe Scarborough and Charlie Sykes fall just outside the top 5 but within the top 10), two are Politicians (Bill Kristol and Mitt Romney), one is a TV Personality (Willie Geist), one is a Professional (Frank Luntz), and one is a Government Official (Gen Michael Hayden). The center entity is itself a Journalist, so the neighbor set is majority same-kind — but the presence of politicians, a government official, and a TV personality signals that the audience extends meaningfully into the broader political-media ecosystem rather than clustering tightly around journalism alone. Republican Voters Against Trump (0.93, Activism) and RealClearPolitics (0.93, News Publishers) round out the ten, adding an organizational and a publisher dimension to what is otherwise a personality-driven set.
The flat, compressed shape of this neighbor set points to an audience that is broadly distributed across the center-right and anti-Trump political media landscape rather than anchored to any single figure or outlet.
