.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recall a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now gotten wisdom. But the amount of variation perform vice-presidential picks in fact make in political elections?