.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not remember a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our experts couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually now acquired knowledge. But the amount of variation carry out vice-presidential picks really make in elections?