.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recollect a solitary instance where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would assist 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 pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "we could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now acquired knowledge. But how much variation carry out vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?