.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recollect a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now received knowledge. But the amount of distinction do vice-presidential choices really create in elections?