.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recollect a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now received knowledge. But the amount of variation perform vice-presidential choices really create in political elections?