.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician from Texas would help 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 strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our experts could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now gotten understanding. However just how much variation do vice-presidential selections actually create in elections?