Honey, I've Asked the Macbeths In for Drinks

In the Clintonian 1990s, the President and his wife aren't the only Washington couple whose careers are brilliantly synergistic. Here's a list of some of the others, ranked by their GorbScore, a rating from 1 to 10 derived from a formula that measures the couple's influence and charm, using as a benchmark the models of modern power partnership, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev.

G = (P1 x P2) + .4(SD1 x SD2) / DLC P=Power, SD=Social Desirability, DLC=Degree to which the DLC couple has anything to do with the Democratic Leadership Council

1. Bob and Elizabeth Dole 9.4

Senate minority leader/president of...

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