.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recall a singular case where a vice-presidential prospect supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually now acquired knowledge. But the amount of distinction carry out vice-presidential selections in fact make in elections?