.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a singular instance where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team could not have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently obtained wisdom. Yet how much difference carry out vice-presidential choices really make in elections?