.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently gotten knowledge. However just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices in fact create in political elections?