.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not remember a single instance where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now obtained knowledge. However just how much difference perform vice-presidential selections in fact create in political elections?