.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recall a single instance where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy confessed that "our company couldn't have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently acquired wisdom. But the amount of difference perform vice-presidential choices in fact make in political elections?