.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our experts could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently gotten wisdom. But just how much distinction perform vice-presidential choices in fact make in vote-castings?