.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not remember a single case where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our company could not have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently acquired knowledge. Yet the amount of difference carry out vice-presidential selections really make in vote-castings?