.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recall a single situation where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician coming from Texas would help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "we could not have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now acquired understanding. However the amount of variation do vice-presidential choices really create in political elections?