.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential candidate contributed a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our team couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now acquired knowledge. However how much difference perform vice-presidential choices actually make in vote-castings?