.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't remember a single instance where a vice-presidential prospect contributed a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently obtained knowledge. But the amount of variation do vice-presidential choices in fact create in vote-castings?