.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recollect a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our experts couldn't have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually now received understanding. But the amount of variation carry out vice-presidential choices really make in elections?