.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not remember a singular situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy accepted that "our experts could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently gotten knowledge. But how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks in fact make in political elections?