.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not remember a solitary instance where a vice-presidential prospect supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman 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 tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "we could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually now received understanding. However how much difference carry out vice-presidential choices in fact make in political elections?