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Dave Wasserman's top 10 neighbors span six different subcategories — political analytics tools, blogs, podcasts, news publishers, and fellow journalists — compressed into a narrow similarity band from 0.98 to 0.99, with no single entity pulling clearly ahead of the rest.
The shape is flat. Five Thirty Eight leads at 0.99, followed immediately by Nate Silver (0.99) and Nate Cohn (0.99), but the gap to tenth-place Pod Save America (0.98) is negligible. Only two of the ten neighbors — Nate Silver and Nate Cohn — share Wasserman's own subcategory of Journalists. The rest are a cross-kind mix: two blogs (538 Politics at 0.99, SCOTUSblog at 0.98), a tools-and-resources outlet (Decision Desk HQ at 0.98), a news publisher (Axios at 0.98), a podcast (Pod Save America at 0.98), a politician (Dan Pfeiffer at 0.99), and a humor-and-satire account (Room Rater at 0.99). The connective tissue across this mix is political analytics and process coverage — election data, court tracking, political commentary — rather than journalism as a format.
The flat, cross-kind cluster suggests an audience defined less by attachment to a single journalist or outlet than by sustained engagement with the infrastructure of political information.
