.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not remember a singular instance where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently obtained knowledge. Yet the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential selections in fact make in elections?