.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recollect a single case where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "we couldn't have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now gotten understanding. However how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices actually create in vote-castings?