.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a singular case where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is currently obtained understanding. But just how much difference perform vice-presidential picks actually make in political elections?