.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't remember a single instance where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly assist 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 pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "our company could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually currently acquired wisdom. Yet just how much distinction do vice-presidential choices actually create in vote-castings?