.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recollect a singular situation where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across 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 succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our experts could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is currently received knowledge. However just how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really create in political elections?