.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recollect a single case where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the senator from Texas would aid him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is right now obtained wisdom. But how much variation perform vice-presidential picks in fact make in vote-castings?