.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't recall a singular scenario where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "we could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now acquired wisdom. However just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential selections actually create in elections?