.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a single case where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas would assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around 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 gained, Kennedy confessed that "our experts couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now received knowledge. Yet the amount of distinction carry out vice-presidential picks in fact create in political elections?