.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recall a singular case where a vice-presidential applicant supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "our company couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now acquired wisdom. But the amount of variation do vice-presidential picks actually make in vote-castings?