.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't remember a solitary instance where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas would certainly help 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 pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team couldn't have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now received knowledge. Yet just how much difference carry out vice-presidential choices really make in political elections?