.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recall a single scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently gotten understanding. But the amount of variation do vice-presidential picks really create in elections?