.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our company could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently gotten understanding. But the amount of difference perform vice-presidential picks really make in political elections?