.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a singular situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "our experts could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now acquired knowledge. Yet how much difference perform vice-presidential picks actually make in political elections?