.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recollect a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "we couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now gotten wisdom. But how much distinction carry out vice-presidential picks really create in vote-castings?