.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recall a solitary situation where a vice-presidential applicant supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our company could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is currently gotten understanding. Yet just how much variation perform vice-presidential choices in fact make in elections?