.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recollect a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our company couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is currently obtained wisdom. But the amount of difference do vice-presidential choices really make in political elections?