.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recall a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our company could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now acquired understanding. But just how much difference perform vice-presidential picks in fact create in elections?