.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't recall a singular scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy confessed that "we couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now gotten wisdom. However just how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks in fact make in political elections?