.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "we couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now received knowledge. Yet just how much difference perform vice-presidential choices actually create in vote-castings?