.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout 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 confessed that "our company could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently gotten knowledge. However how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really make in elections?