.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recall a singular instance where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would aid him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy confessed that "we couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now gotten understanding. However just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential selections in fact make in vote-castings?