.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recall a single case where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. 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 Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now received wisdom. However how much variation perform vice-presidential picks really make in vote-castings?