.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recollect a single instance where a vice-presidential candidate contributed a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would assist him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "we could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now gotten wisdom. However the amount of distinction do vice-presidential choices really make in political elections?