.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a single scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy accepted that "our company couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is currently acquired understanding. But the amount of difference carry out vice-presidential choices really make in vote-castings?