.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our experts couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually currently acquired wisdom. But how much distinction do vice-presidential selections really create in vote-castings?