.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recollect a solitary instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas would aid him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our company could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now gotten knowledge. Yet how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks actually create in elections?