.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician coming from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our team could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is currently acquired understanding. But the amount of variation do vice-presidential choices really make in political elections?