.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recollect a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "we couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is right now received knowledge. Yet how much difference carry out vice-presidential choices actually make in political elections?