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Ted Lieu's top 10 neighbors span politicians, journalists, activists, professionals, and authors — a mixed-subcategory cluster compressed into a remarkably tight similarity band, from 0.975 down to 0.961.
The shape is flat: no single neighbor dominates. Robert Reich (0.975, Politicians) and Jim Acosta (0.975, Journalists) sit at virtually the same distance, separated by just 0.0001. Sally Yates (0.970, Politicians) and Preet Bharara (0.969, Professionals) follow just behind. The top 10 includes four Politicians, two Professionals, two Activists, one Journalist, and one Author — meaning journalists, who dominate positions 11 through 50 in the broader graph, are nearly absent from the innermost ring, with Jim Acosta the sole Journalist in the top 10. The cross-kind composition here is the real finding: Ted Lieu's nearest audiences are shaped less by other politicians alone than by a coalition of political-adjacent figures — legal professionals like Preet Bharara and Chelsea Clinton (0.966, Professionals), activists like Claudia Conway (0.965) and David Hogg (0.962), and an author in Molly Jong-Fast (0.964).
The flat, compressed band across subcategories points to an audience that moves fluidly across political commentary, civic journalism, and activism rather than clustering tightly around any single type.
