.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recollect a single scenario where a vice-presidential applicant contributed a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "we couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently obtained knowledge. But the amount of difference perform vice-presidential selections in fact create in political elections?