.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recall a single instance where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now received wisdom. But just how much variation perform vice-presidential selections really create in political elections?