.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company couldn't have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now gotten understanding. However just how much variation carry out vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?