.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas would assist him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our experts could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now obtained wisdom. However how much difference do vice-presidential choices in fact make in elections?