.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a single situation where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now gotten knowledge. Yet how much distinction perform vice-presidential picks actually create in political elections?