.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recollect a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator from Texas would certainly aid him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our team couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now acquired wisdom. But how much distinction perform vice-presidential selections in fact make in vote-castings?