.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recall a single scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "we couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently obtained understanding. Yet the amount of variation do vice-presidential choices in fact make in political elections?