.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recollect a solitary case where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. 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 Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now obtained understanding. Yet just how much difference perform vice-presidential picks in fact make in political elections?