.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our company couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently obtained wisdom. Yet the amount of difference perform vice-presidential choices in fact create in political elections?