.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't recall a singular case where a vice-presidential candidate assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now obtained understanding. Yet just how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really create in political elections?