.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't remember a singular instance where a vice-presidential prospect contributed a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our experts couldn't have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually now obtained wisdom. However just how much variation perform vice-presidential picks really create in vote-castings?