.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our team could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently obtained wisdom. But just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices really make in vote-castings?