.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a single instance where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas would help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our team couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently acquired knowledge. But how much variation carry out vice-presidential choices actually create in political elections?