.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential candidate supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our company could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually currently acquired knowledge. But how much distinction do vice-presidential selections actually create in elections?