.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recall a single instance where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our company could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now obtained knowledge. However the amount of distinction carry out vice-presidential selections actually create in political elections?