.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not remember a single scenario where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "our team couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently acquired wisdom. However the amount of difference carry out vice-presidential picks really create in political elections?