.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recollect a solitary case where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman coming from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "we couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now acquired knowledge. However how much distinction do vice-presidential selections in fact create in vote-castings?