.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't remember a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is right now gotten knowledge. But the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential picks in fact create in political elections?