.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recollect a singular case where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is currently received wisdom. But how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections actually create in vote-castings?