.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recall a solitary situation where a vice-presidential candidate assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our team could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now obtained knowledge. Yet just how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks in fact create in elections?