.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recollect a single case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas will help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually currently gotten wisdom. Yet the amount of difference carry out vice-presidential picks really create in political elections?