.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't remember a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas would help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy confessed that "our company couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now acquired wisdom. Yet the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential picks really make in political elections?