.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas would assist him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now acquired knowledge. However the amount of difference do vice-presidential selections really make in vote-castings?