.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recall a singular scenario where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is currently acquired wisdom. But the amount of difference perform vice-presidential picks in fact make in elections?