.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recall a single situation where a vice-presidential candidate supported a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "our experts couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now obtained wisdom. However how much variation carry out vice-presidential choices in fact create in political elections?