.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recall a single case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas would assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our experts couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently gotten wisdom. But just how much variation perform vice-presidential choices actually make in political elections?