.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recall a singular situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the senator from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our team could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently obtained knowledge. Yet the amount of difference carry out vice-presidential picks actually create in vote-castings?