.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential applicant supported a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our experts could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now acquired knowledge. However just how much variation do vice-presidential picks really create in political elections?