.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas would assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "we couldn't have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually now obtained understanding. However how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices really create in elections?