.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recall a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually now obtained knowledge. However just how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really create in political elections?