.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our company couldn't have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently acquired wisdom. But the amount of distinction carry out vice-presidential picks in fact create in vote-castings?