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The top 10 neighbors for Steve Schmidt divide almost evenly across three subcategories — Politicians, Academics, and Government Officials — with Journalists and TV Personalities rounding out the set. Similarity here measures how closely another entity's audience composition resembles Schmidt's; scores across the top 10 run from 0.9842 to 0.9948, a band of just over one point, which is the defining feature of a flat shape: no single neighbor pulls away from the rest.
Rick Wilson leads at 0.9948, followed closely by Nicolle Wallace at 0.9922 and Bill Kristol at 0.9892. Three Academics — Laurence Tribe (0.9857), Richard W. Painter (0.9846), and Neal Katyal (0.9842) — form a distinct cluster within the set, alongside Government Officials John O. Brennan (0.9883) and Daniel Goldman (0.9850). Mimi Rocah (0.9850) is the sole TV Personality in the top 10. Notably, no other Professional — Schmidt's own subcategory — appears among the ten nearest neighbors, meaning his audience shape is defined almost entirely by the overlap with politicians, legal academics, and current or former government officials rather than with peers in his own classification.
The flat, compressed score range signals an audience that is broadly shared across a specific political-media ecosystem rather than anchored to any single figure within it.
