.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recall a singular instance where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our experts couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently obtained understanding. However how much difference carry out vice-presidential picks in fact make in elections?