.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recall a singular scenario where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "we couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now gotten knowledge. However just how much distinction perform vice-presidential choices actually make in political elections?