.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recollect a singular situation where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas would aid him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy accepted that "our experts couldn't have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually now acquired knowledge. However how much distinction perform vice-presidential choices actually make in vote-castings?