.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now obtained understanding. However the amount of difference carry out vice-presidential choices in fact make in political elections?