.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recollect a single instance where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "we could not have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently gotten wisdom. Yet just how much difference carry out vice-presidential picks really make in political elections?