.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not remember a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the senator coming from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company could not have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is currently gotten understanding. However just how much variation do vice-presidential selections really create in vote-castings?