.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't remember a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "we couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is right now obtained wisdom. But the amount of variation do vice-presidential choices actually make in political elections?