.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recollect a singular scenario where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts could not have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now acquired wisdom. But how much variation perform vice-presidential picks in fact make in political elections?