.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recollect a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator coming from Texas will help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now acquired understanding. Yet how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks actually make in elections?