.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recollect a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts couldn't have actually lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is currently gotten wisdom. But how much variation perform vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?