.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recall a solitary situation where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas will aid him in southern states. 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 Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our experts could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is now gotten wisdom. Yet the amount of difference do vice-presidential selections actually create in political elections?