.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't recall a solitary case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts couldn't have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is right now obtained wisdom. Yet how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really make in vote-castings?