.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recall a singular scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our experts could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now received understanding. Yet the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential picks actually make in political elections?