.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would certainly assist 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 strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "we couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now acquired knowledge. But just how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?