.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not remember a single scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy confessed that "we could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently acquired wisdom. Yet just how much difference perform vice-presidential choices actually create in political elections?