.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't remember a single case where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas would certainly aid him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy accepted that "our company could not have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is now obtained knowledge. Yet just how much distinction perform vice-presidential picks actually make in elections?