.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't remember a solitary instance where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly aid 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 stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "we could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently obtained wisdom. Yet how much difference perform vice-presidential selections in fact create in vote-castings?