.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't remember a singular instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our experts couldn't have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually currently received knowledge. Yet just how much variation perform vice-presidential choices actually make in political elections?