.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't remember a single situation where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our experts could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is now received knowledge. However just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential selections really make in vote-castings?