.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a singular case where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas will help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout 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 gained, Kennedy accepted that "our company couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now gotten wisdom. But just how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks in fact create in elections?