.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't remember a singular instance where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas would aid him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now acquired wisdom. However just how much difference do vice-presidential choices really create in vote-castings?