.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't recall a solitary instance where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our company couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually currently obtained understanding. Yet the amount of distinction do vice-presidential picks really make in vote-castings?