.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recall a singular situation where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "we could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently obtained wisdom. Yet how much difference carry out vice-presidential choices actually make in vote-castings?