.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "we could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now received wisdom. Yet the amount of difference perform vice-presidential selections really make in vote-castings?