Walter Shaub's top 10 neighbors are dominated by journalists, with politicians, authors, and academics filling the remaining slots — a cross-kind cluster for a Government Officials subcategory entry.
Tallying the top 10: Kasie Hunt (0.98), Kelly O'Donnell (0.98), Joe Scarborough (0.98), Matthew Miller (0.97), and Chuck Todd (0.97) are all Journalists. Amy Siskind (0.97) is an Activist; Michael Beschloss (0.97) is an Author; Rick Wilson (0.97) is a Politician; Richard W. Painter (0.97) is an Academic; and Jon Meacham (0.97) is an Author. That is five Journalists, two Authors, one Politician, one Activist, and one Academic — no other Government Officials appear in the top 10.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.98 down to 0.97 across all ten neighbors, a band of less than two hundredths. No single neighbor pulls away from the pack. The cluster's character is political-media commentary — journalists who cover governance, authors and academics who write about it, and political figures who critique it — rather than peers from Shaub's own subcategory.
This tight, cross-kind band suggests the audience Walter Shaub draws is defined less by government-official identity and more by sustained engagement with political accountability coverage.