.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now received wisdom. Yet just how much distinction do vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?