.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now received wisdom. However just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices actually create in vote-castings?