.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn 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 confessed that "our team couldn't have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is currently gotten knowledge. However the amount of variation perform vice-presidential picks in fact make in vote-castings?