.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recall a singular scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really 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 tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts could not have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is currently gotten knowledge. However just how much variation perform vice-presidential choices actually create in elections?