.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a single scenario where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "our experts couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is currently gotten wisdom. Yet the amount of variation carry out vice-presidential picks in fact make in vote-castings?