.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recall a singular scenario where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently acquired understanding. Yet how much distinction do vice-presidential selections actually make in elections?