.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not remember a singular instance where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts couldn't have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently obtained knowledge. Yet just how much distinction do vice-presidential picks actually make in political elections?