.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recall a single scenario where a vice-presidential candidate assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually now received understanding. Yet just how much distinction do vice-presidential choices in fact create in vote-castings?